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  • verb Present participle of engorge.

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Examples

  • If by “progressive” is meant engorging insurers and providers while consigning many more millions to means-tested welfare and permanent indigence, well …

    Matthew Yglesias » Health Care Note 2010

  • Her soul soaked them up, engorging itself, manifesting in a luminescent radiant glow through her skin, reflecting back into her environment.

    A printing press. Jamie Sughroue 2011

  • Caught in an artistic stupor, he wrote on his site that he was just going to watch James Bond DVDs and try not to think about "the throbbing sensation engorging my inner soul".

    Internet picks of the week 2011

  • The shenanigans of the G20 Meeting are just an offering of canapés in comparison to the engorging feast of an Olympic Games.

    G20 - The best press photos - April Fools Day « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009

  • Think upstairs/downstairs in Victorian England or, in our time, the chic, high-end urban restaurant -- affluent diners engorging themselves while the Hispanic kitchen staff cooks and cleans.

    Jonathan Lewis: Urbanization of Poverty Jonathan Lewis 2010

  • Think upstairs/downstairs in Victorian England or, in our time, the chic, high-end urban restaurant -- affluent diners engorging themselves while the Hispanic kitchen staff cooks and cleans.

    Jonathan Lewis: Urbanization of Poverty Jonathan Lewis 2010

  • And Gilgamesh engorging his massive person devoured plate after plate of roast boar and succulents, drinking forever goblets of brown grain wine.

    A Mess 2010

  • Think upstairs/downstairs in Victorian England or, in our time, the chic, high-end urban restaurant -- affluent diners engorging themselves while the Hispanic kitchen staff cooks and cleans.

    Jonathan Lewis: Urbanization of Poverty Jonathan Lewis 2010

  • Troop recalls and a significant slimming of the public trough upon which defense contractors have been engorging themselves since even before Eisenhower's famous "military industrial complex" confession will be completed to ensure budget "neutrality", which is an arbitrary and utterly useless thing, since the only sustainable fiscal balance is the one that ensures full employment with product price stability.

    Marshall Auerback: The G20 Votes for Global Depression 2010

  • Troop recalls and a significant slimming of the public trough upon which defense contractors have been engorging themselves since even before Eisenhower's famous "military industrial complex" confession will be completed to ensure budget "neutrality", which is an arbitrary and utterly useless thing, since the only sustainable fiscal balance is the one that ensures full employment with product price stability.

    Marshall Auerback: The G20 Votes for Global Depression 2010

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