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Synonyms for engorge

Most common

over-eat swallow gorge devour gulp down

All synonyms

Verb

1. Gorge — to devour something greedily, gorge, glut

gorge, devour, stuff, over-eat, swallow, swallow up, glut, binge, over-indulge, satiate, gormandize, gormandise UK, gourmandise UK, overgorge, ingurgitate, englut, surfeit, pig out slang

Definitions

  1. v. 1

    To devour something greedily, gorge, glut.

Related words

Word family
engorgement

Forms

Past participle
engorged
e.g. engorged → gorged, devoured, stuffed, over-eaten…

Example sentences

  • swallow Mary wanted the ground to open up and swallow her.
  • gorge Ironbridge Gorge is a Unesco world heritage site.
  • devour I enjoy reading so much that I devour a book a week.

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
engorgesteady
swallowrising
gorgesteady
devourrising

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

4 letters
glut1
5 letters
stuff1, binge1, gorge1
6 letters
devour3, englut
7 letters
swallow2, satiate, surfeit2
9 letters
overgorge
10 letters
gormandize, gormandise
11 letters
gourmandise, ingurgitate

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (devour3 = 3 syllables).