ingurgitate

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  1. transitive verb To swallow greedily or in excessive amounts; gulp.

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  • Our wiser caupones, I am told, know how to fatten their fowls, as well as their geese, for the London markets, by mixing gin instead of figs and fat with their food; by which they are said to become sleepy, and to fatten apace, and probably acquire enlarged livers; as the swine are asserted to do, which are fed on the sediments of barrels in the distilleries; and which so frequently obtains in those, who ingurgitate much ale, or wine, or drams. —  Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life
 

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  1. Latin ingurgitāre, ingurgitāt- : in-, in; see in-2 + gurges, gurgit-, throat, whirlpool.

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  1. from Latin ingurgitatus, past participle of ingurgitare (later Italian ingurgitare = Spanish ingurgitar = French ingurgiter), plunge into, gorge, from in, in, + gurges (gurgit-), a gulf: see gorge.
 

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/ɪnˈgərdʒɪteɪt/
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