[ɛnˈɡɔːdʒ], (Verb)

Definitions:
- cause to swell with blood, water, or another fluid
(e.g: the river was engorged by a day-long deluge)

- eat to excess
(e.g: you touch not one dish, leaving them afterwards for your servants to engorge themselves therewith)


Phrases:

Origin:
late 15th century (in the sense ‘gorge; eat or fill to excess’): from Old French engorgier ‘feed to excess’, from en- ‘into’ + gorge ‘throat’