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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To swallow greedily or in excessive amounts; gulp.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To swallow greedily or in great quantity.
  2. To plunge; engulf.
  3. To drink largely; swill.

Wiktionary

  1. v. To swallow up greedily or in large amounts; gulp; gorge; guzzle.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To swallow, devour, or drink greedily or in large quantity; to guzzle.
  2. v. To swallow up, as in a gulf.
  3. v. To guzzle; to swill.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself

Etymologies

  1. From the participle stem of Latin ingurgitāre, from in- + gurges ("whirlpool"). (Wiktionary)
  2. Latin ingurgitāre, ingurgitāt- : in-, in; see in-2 + gurges, gurgit-, throat, whirlpool. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “Nothing pesters the body and mind sooner than to be still fed, to eat and ingurgitate beyond all measure, as many do.”

    Anatomy of Melancholy

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  1. guzzle
  1. swill
  1. swallow

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  1. eat

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