Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To swallow greedily or in excessive amounts; gulp.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To swallow greedily or in great quantity.
- To plunge; engulf.
- To drink largely; swill.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To guzzle; to swill.
- transitive verb To swallow, devour, or drink greedily or in large quantity; to guzzle.
- transitive verb To swallow up, as in a gulf.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
swallow up greedily or in large amounts;gulp ;gorge ;guzzle .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Latin ingurgitāre, ingurgitāt- : in-, in; see in– + gurges, gurgit-, throat, whirlpool.]
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From the participle stem of Latin ingurgitāre, from in- + gurges ("whirlpool").
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Examples
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Nothing pesters the body and mind sooner than to be still fed, to eat and ingurgitate beyond all measure, as many do.
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