gorging
present participle ofgorge
gorge
verb[IorT]
uk/ɡɔːdʒ/us/ɡɔːrdʒ/toeatuntil you areunabletoeatany more:
If you gorgeyourselfonsnackslike that, you won'teatyourdinner.
Synonyms
bingeinformal
overeat
overindulge
stuffyourselfinformal
Eating
- al desko
- binge
- binge eating
- bite
- break breadidiom
- cram
- fall on/uponsomeone
- feast
- feast onsomething
- feeder
- feeding
- inhale
- mainline
- partake
- pick
- pick atsomething
- picnic
- pig
- shovel
- trough
Examplesofgorging
gorging
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
While drinking andgorgingmake him gentlemanly, it seems, they also break him down.
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Identification of blood components which inducegorgingof the mosquito.
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Synthesis of this product presumably resumes on feeding, but the high demand created bygorgingmay prevent vesicles accumulating.
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Might these thoughts of opera's debilitation and of spectators'gorgingbe succeeded by ones that celebrate the genre's posthumous forms?
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The opencast vulture isgorgingitself on the carcase of the late-lamented deep-mining industry.
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I think we aregorgingthat vote.
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Gorgingallows the bird to fast for several days if food becomes unavailable.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.His main activity apart from writing was guttling andgorging.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Aftergorgingitself on its host, the trophozoite undergoes schizogony and develops into a schizont, later releasing merozoites.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.She mumbles nonsense words, before cooking the bodies, cutting them up andgorgingherself on the flesh, to the disgust of the villagers.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.To compensate, he spent one nightgorginghimself on bananas, liquids and doughnuts, and weighed enough to enlist the next day.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The town leaders (who are in the middle ofgorgingthemselves on food and wine) give him only a black button.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The demons attack the mercenaries,gorgingthemselves on blood.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The thing is this sport craze gets quickly out of hand: nobody hunts any more and the dodo birds aregorgingon the village winter stores!
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.A fire bat attaches itself to prey with its razor-sharp fangs, burning and bleeding its victim; a fire bat will reproduce by fission aftergorgingitself on blood.
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