Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of swallowing greedily; a devouring with voracity.
- noun In pathology, the state of being filled to excess, as the vessels of an organ with blood; hyperemia; congestion.
- noun In metallurgy, the partial choking up of a blast-furnace by an accumulation of material not thoroughly fused. Ordinarily called
scaffolding .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of swallowing greedily; a devouring with voracity; a glutting.
- noun (Med.) An overfullness or obstruction of the vessels in some part of the system; congestion.
- noun (Metal.) The clogging of a blast furnace.
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- noun The process or the condition of becoming
engorged , becoming over-filled with fluid.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun congestion with blood
- noun eating ravenously or voraciously to satiation
Etymologies
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Examples
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But try to dry up at night if engorgement is a problem for you.
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The time right after weaning – once the engorgement is gone and the hormones have settled down a little – has been such a wonderful time for me, with both children.
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Good art, says he, like short term memory and genital engorgement, is difficult to sustain into one’s 70s and 80s.
Sit down, old man 2009
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The fullness and tenderness you experience when your milk comes in is sometimes called engorgement, but these feelings aren’t symptoms of true engorgement, which is a more serious condition caused by unrelieved breast fullness.
Pregnancy, Childbirth, and the Newborn Penny Simkin 2010
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The fullness and tenderness you experience when your milk comes in is sometimes called engorgement, but these feelings aren’t symptoms of true engorgement, which is a more serious condition caused by unrelieved breast fullness.
Pregnancy, Childbirth, and the Newborn Penny Simkin 2010
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Common during the first weeks of breastfeeding, engorgement occurs when breasts are filled to capacity, often causing discomfort.
Be Prepared Gary Greenberg 2004
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Common during the first weeks of breastfeeding, engorgement occurs when breasts are filled to capacity, often causing discomfort.
Be Prepared Gary Greenberg 2004
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Are you sure it was a wedding cake and not an "engorgement" cake?
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The article details how studies are conducted with an apparatus connected to (ouch) penises or in the vagina to rate "engorgement" while the subjects use keypads to punch in their feelings.
Greg Mitchell: Coming Attraction: New York Times Magazine Spotlights Female Orgasms This Sunday 2009
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You and Laura, two consenting adults, agreed that you nursing her baby was a solid solution to your out-of-control engorgement.
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