Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • transitive verb To gulp down; swallow greedily.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To swallow or gulp down.
  • To fill to repletion; glut.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb obsolete To swallow or gulp down.
  • transitive verb obsolete To glut.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb To swallow; to swallow up, engulf.
  • verb To glut, satiate.

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

[Anglo-Norman englutir, from Late Latin inglūtīre : Latin in-, intensive pref.; see in– + Latin gluttīre, to swallow.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

Partly from Old French englotir, partly from en- +‎ glut.

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