ingurgitatev.
/ɪnˈɡəːdʒɪteɪt/ 1.
a. transitive. To swallow greedily or immoderately (food, or, in later use esp., drink). Also figurative.
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the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > appetite > excessive consumption of food or drink > eat or drink to excess [verb (transitive)]
engorge1497
ingurgitate1570
guzzle1583
gurgitate1656
gorge1713
stuff1743
stow1833
1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Div/1 Ingurgitate, ingurgitare.
1574 T. Newton tr. G. Gratarolo Direct. Health Magistrates & Studentes 16 Meate excessively ingurgitate and eaten..commonly engendreth and breedeth cruditie.
1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 261 To iugurgitate [sic] and consume more of Gods creatures.
1657 R. Tomlinson tr. J. de Renou Medicinal Materials i, in Medicinal Dispensatory sig. Ggv When he had ingurgitated much wine.
a1711 T. Ken Edmund in Wks. (1721) II. iii. 83 Those Sots..Flask after Flask ingurgitate, till drown'd In their own Spews they wallow on the Ground.
1822 T. Taylor tr. Apuleius Philos. Plato ii. 358 To ingurgitate pleasures of every kind.
1855 F. Hall in Nation (N.Y.) 40 257/1 He does not hesitate to ingurgitate, at one brave gulp, all the evil..that is found in the original German.
b. absol. To eat or drink to excess; to gormandize, guzzle.
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the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > appetite > excessive consumption of food or drink > eat or drink to excess [verb (intransitive)]
surfeit1569
ingurgitate1598
split1677
1598 T. Bastard Chrestoleros i. xv. 11 Phisition Mirus talkes of saliuation..Who doth ingurgitate, who tussicate.
1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy ii. ii. i. ii. 310 To eat and ingurgitate beyond all measure, as many doe.
1841 Jeffrey Let. in Cockburn Life II. clvii When awake and not ingurgitating, on the whole very good company.
c. To gorge, to cram with food or drink.
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the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > appetite > excessive consumption of food or drink > eat or drink to excess [verb (transitive)] > feed (oneself) to excess
over-quatc1275
glutc1315
fill1340
stuffa1400
aglutc1400
agroten1440
grotenc1440
ingrotenc1440
sorporrc1440
replenisha1450
pegc1450
quatc1450
overgorgea1475
gorge1486
burst1530
cloy1530
saturate1538
enfarce1543
mast?1550
engluta1568
gull1582
ingurgitate1583
stall1583
forage1593
paunch1597
upbray1598
upbraid1599
surfeitc1600
surcharge1603
gormandize1604
overfeed1609
farcinate1634
repletiate1638
stodge1854
1583 P. Stubbes Anat. Abuses sig. Ii Wee must not swill and ingurgitate our stomacks so ful.
1615 T. Adams Spirituall Nauigator 15 in Blacke Devill Cormorants, whose gorges haue bene long ingurgitated with the world.
2. † b. intransitive for reflexive. Of a river: To discharge itself into the sea. (Cf. engulf v. 1b) Obsolete.
a. transitive. To swallow up as a gulf or whirlpool; to engulf. literal and figurative.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > wrapping > wrap [verb (transitive)] > enfold or envelop > in a surrounding medium > swallow up
swallowc1175
to swallow up1526
devour1555
engulf1555
abyss1596
involve1605
flapdragona1616
to suck upa1616
ingurgitatea1620
absorbeate1623
exorbeate1623
entomba1631
gulf1807
begulf1809
a1620 M. Fotherby Atheomastix (1622) ii. ii. §5. 206 Let him ingurgitate himselfe neuer so deepe into it.
1644 J. Vicars Jehovah-jireh 204 The swelling and swallowing Waves, which thought to have ingurgitated and supt us all up.
1787 tr. F. G. Klopstock Messiah iii. 93 Thus whirlpools..ingurgitate into their gulphs profound the incautious mariner.
1849 E. B. Eastwick Dry Leaves 121 Bankers who pay no interest it is true, but do not absorb and ingurgitate your principal.
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the world > the earth > water > rivers and streams > action of river > flow (of river) [verb (intransitive)] > disembogue
fallOE
disbogue1589
empty1591
to have one's forth1597
disembogue1598
mouth1598
dimit16..
dischannel1607
ingurgitate1632
discharge1816
debouch1834
erupt1864
gurgitate1907
1632 J. Vicars tr. Virgil XII Aeneids 5 Where swift Simois did ingurgitate.
Derivatives
inˈgurgitated adj.
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the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > processes or manners of eating > [adjective] > eating voraciously
ravishingc1350
gluttinga1575
gullowing1598
vorant1618
ingurgitated1654
glutted1667
devouring1720
the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > wrapping > [adjective] > wrapped > enfolded or enveloped
mantleda1425
encovered1596
enwrapped1598
shrouded1600
enveloped1607
involved?1611
upwrapped1642
hooded1695
ingurgitated1851
1654 E. Gayton Pleasant Notes Don Quixot iv. xxv. 284 Sancho had in a short time choak'd himselfe with the ingurgitated reliques and orts of the Canons provision.
1851 N. Hawthorne House of Seven Gables xxi. 333 A momentary eddy,—very small, as compared with the apparent magnitude of the ingurgitated object.
inˈgurgitating adj.
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the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > appetite > excessive consumption of food or drink > [adjective]
crapulousc1540
surfeiting1588
ingurgitating1620
guzzling1637
crapulent1888
stodging1898
the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > wrapping > [adjective] > enfolding or enveloping > in a medium
mantling1637
ingurgitating1830
enwrapping1850
engulfing1852
1620 T. Venner Via Recta vi. 102 Mixt sauces.., which of ingurgitating belly-gods are greatly esteemed.
1830 Beauties Thanet II. 59 Their ingurgitating property is so powerful, that in a few days even the largest vessel driven upon them would be swallowed up.
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