Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To gorge to excess.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To gorge to excess.
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- verb To
gorge toexcess .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself
Etymologies
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over- + gorge
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Examples
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After nativity the stomach of the child may be occasionally too much distended with milk; as previous hunger may induce it to overgorge itself; and by repeated efforts the act of vomiting is learned, as a means of getting free from a disagreeable sensation.
Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766
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