Definitions
Wiktionary
- v. Simple past tense and past participle of engorge.
- adj. Of or pertaining to something that is overly filled with fluid, especially a blood vessel.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Swallowed with greediness, or in large draughts.
- adj. (Med.) Filled to excess with blood or other liquid; congested.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. overfull as with blood
Examples
“So, I kind of engorged myself on it and found that I am really susceptible to advertising.”
“Rather, if you drink too much water or sports drink, your blood can become diluted and your cells "engorged" with fluid, squeezing the brain stem and causing brain damage or death.”
“Limited evacuations were also reported in towns along the engorged Delaware River.”
The Wall Street Journal: Pennsylvanians Ordered to Flee Flood Zone
“Fluffy white cake engorged in homemade chocolate buttercream frosting.”
“She went to bed, and I was left alone with my engorged melons.”
“After a doctor found that her breasts were engorged with milk, she was fitted with a locator ankle bracelet and sent home, pending the deportation hearing Nov 3.”
The Washington Post: Call for help leads to possible deportation for Hyattsville mother
“The cluster at the top of the main stem will become so congested that it may stretch 18 inches or more and contain hundreds of engorged flowers.”
“For hours, it was a team effort—my husband and me trying to get milk from my engorged bosom to the empty tummy of my little one.”
“Until the human heart has turned away from brutality, until it has so engorged itself upon destruction that any form of cruelty sickens it instinctively, until it becomes the-heart-that-evolved-from-the-heart-of-man, there will be no end to the violent insanity that addicts mankind.”
“My mother did not breastfeed me, but once during my babyhood she allowed me to nurse at the breast of an engorged friend of hers.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘engorged’.
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bepetersen's list
Words that I think should be banned from the English language
spittle, supper, crusty, moist, engorged, crotch, sinew, salve, suckle, mauve, damp, squat and 34 more...
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wakcy's Words
apocalypse, interlude, drome, absolution, atrocity, ruse, pristine, mason, reparable, deteriorate, pyramid, hipster and 283 more...
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sionnach's Words
contumely, fomite, holmgang, poltroon, eleemosynary, obsidian, nugatory, grindcore, felch, recrudescent, pyx, parenteral and 3271 more...
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stpeter's Words
abase, abasement, abashed, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abhorrent, abide, abject, ablation, abnegation and 3536 more...
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phuzzy's Words
entomophagan, corpuscle, mellifluence, haberdasher, milliner, tow, spartan, bdellotomy, trepan, trephine, congenial, courtly and 208 more...
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Kavitha's Words
avarice, mellow, mahogany, serendipity, plush, vengeance, catalyst, plausible, penury, meticulous, sarcastic, ninja and 100 more...
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wordsmithing part deux
because wordsmith is not a verb.
enmity, incarnate, chignon, nape, solitude, nocturne, decorum, warren, svelte, interstice, serene, charlotte and 488 more...
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punnything's Words
existentialist, configure, numismatist, autumnal, desist, ennui, taciturn, vacillate, naivete, bloodletting, tete-a-tete, concentric and 274 more...
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lucidityprevails's Words
lucidity, journalistic, truthiness, foolhardy, egotism, lesbian, orgasmic, activism, moonglow, voodoo, conquer, demolish and 534 more...
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words I don't like very much
many frequently used by moms; words that sound dirtier than they are
crisp, grunge, cuddle, puke, smear, voucher, manipulate, fodder, coddle, fecund, chunk, hunk and 71 more...
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Burning Love: A Novel
smolder, tantalizing, sexy, lust, sinewy, tempestuous, erotic, sensuous, naughty, love, crave, consort and 46 more...
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Sexy Words in a more authentic sense ...
flesh, fingertips, hips, lips, torried, sultry, skin, thrust, swallowed, engorged, writhing, heaving and 18 more...
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Niteowl's Words
flagrant, usurp, rectify, juxtapose, ingratiate, ambulate, discombobulated, periwinkle, disintermediation, luscious, zounds, perfidy and 49 more...
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Words I Hate
jocular, moist, slacks, sac, nugget, panties, engorged, pustule, loaf, badonkadonk, succor, groin
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sexeh
In the midnight hour she cried MOAR MOAR MOAR
orgiastic, vulva, moist, cunnilingus, thrust, swollen, nibble, stroke, engorged, grind, tumescent, lust and 49 more...
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drbrett's Words
coprophagia, formication, inchoate, erudite, analingus, didactic, peripatetic, suffused, engorged, venal, extracorporeal, transubstantiation and 11 more...
Tweets
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milosrdenstvi I immediately thought of disgorged... Aug 15, 2008
bilby George? Aug 15, 2008
sionnach Question: if you had to add a word to come after this one, what word would it be? I think we all know the first candidate that comes to mind... Feb 16, 2007