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Definition of engorging : of Engorge

Synonyms:

devouring, admitting, pocketing, inhaling, ingesting, accepting, getting, absorbing, assimilating, eating, swallowing, gulping, gobbling, accessing, taking, inspiring, receiving, acquiring

enlarging, amplifying, extending, magnifying, lengthening, inflating, burgeoning, incrementing, spreading, broadening, augmenting, expanding, swelling, distending, thickening, growing, stretching, widening, developing, dilating, fattening, increasing

appeasing, slaking, gorging, sating, gratifying, quenching, stuffing, satisfying, satiating, saturating, allaying, filling, glutting

Usage examples:

• That fireball flattened, then spread to form the mushroom- head of a column of incandescent gas that mounted to overtake it, engorging the smoke- rings as it rose, twisting, writhing, changing shape, turning to dark smoke in one moment and belching flame and crackling with lightning the next. - "Uller Uprising", Henry Beam Piper, John D. Clark and John F. Carr.