engorgeとは意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈɡɔːdʒ/
• 韻: -ɔː(ɹ)dʒ

動詞

engorge (三人称単数 現在形 engorges, 現在分詞 engorging, 過去形および過去分詞形 engorged)

1. (transitive) To devour something greedily, gorge, glut.
   • 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion‎^[1]:

     One typical Grecian kiln engorged one thousand muleloads of juniper wood in a single burn. Fifty such kilns would devour six thousand metric tons of trees and brush annually.

2. (intransitive) To feed ravenously.
   • 1667, John Milton, “(please specify the book number)”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], OCLC 228722708; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554:

     Greedily she engorged without restraint

3. (pathology) To fill excessively with a body liquid, especially blood.

関連する語

• disgorge