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词汇 engorge
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Definition of engorge in English:

engorge

verb ɪnˈɡɔːdʒɛnˈɡɔːdʒ
  • 1with object Cause to swell with blood, water, or another fluid.

    使充满血(或水等液体)

    the river was engorged by a day-long deluge

    一天的大雨使河流涨满了水。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Yes, we had one day on a forest trail where we learned their nasty habit of attaching themselves to our skin and sucking our blood until they were so engorged that they dropped off, usually into our boots.
    • Or perhaps water reminded them of floods, torrential rain, or raging engorged rivers.
    • This engorges your muscles with blood and improve nutrient delivery to muscle cells.
    • If you have your patient strain, you can often recognize an external hemorrhoid as it is engorged with blood and everted.
    • Except when engorged by spring meltwater and ice, the Severn River empties serenely into Hudson Bay.
    • The entire upper arm becomes engorged with oxygen-rich blood, creating a positive growth environment for both muscle groups.
    • If your biceps are getting engorged with blood, you're not fully working your back.
    • Once feeding is complete the tick is engorged with blood and will fall off.
    • Cal slipped easily through traffic that sat idly waiting to be engorged from one slow moving lane into another.
    • This causes greater blood flow to the muscle, delivering more water to engorge the muscle cells with.
    • Veins which are not designed to handle so much blood so become engorged and dilated, and occasionally burst.
    • That taut feeling in your muscles when they're engorged with blood and fluids, where you can see every vein and you think that you muscles may explode - it's inspiring, right?
    • Sometimes the beating of her heart was so violent that everyone around could observe it; at autopsy it was seen to be engorged with fresh blood.
    • Ticks have three life stages (larva, nymph, and adult), each of which requires a different individual host on which they attach and engorge with blood before dropping off and metamorphosing to the next stage.
    • Following blood feeding, fully engorged mosquitoes were separated and thereafter continuously supplied with sucrose-saturated pads.
    • This helps promote a pump - the full muscular sensation you get when your target muscles are engorged with blood and fluids - by ‘opening up’ your circulatory system.
    • If the pressure is not equalized by a larger volume of gas, the space will be filled by tissue engorged with fluid and blood.
    Synonyms
    swollen, bloated, tumescent, dilated, engorged, enlarged, inflated, stretched, blown up, pumped out, pumped up
  • 2engorge oneselfarchaic Eat to excess.

    you touch not one dish, leaving them afterwards for your servants to engorge themselves therewith
    Example sentencesExamples
    • They latch on to bare skin and bury their heads deep in the flesh before engorging themselves to bursting point on fresh blood.

Derivatives

  • engorgement

  • noun ɛnˈɡɔːdʒm(ə)ntɪnˈɡɔːdʒm(ə)nt
    • The almost-immediate muscle engorgement (and subsequent strength and endurance increases) many bodybuilders experience with creatine can be the best motivator for improved workouts.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • However, accurate determinations of species of tick and degree of engorgement are not routinely possible.
      • Heart size is normal, and there are no findings of engorgement.
      • By day seven, I was feeling less engorgement in my right breast.
      • In addition to teaching new parents how to know if their child is getting enough milk and how to manage engorgement, important concepts such as the supply and demand nature of breastmilk production can be reviewed.

Origin

Late 15th century (in the sense 'gorge; eat or fill to excess'): from Old French engorgier 'feed to excess', from en- 'into' + gorge 'throat'.

Rhymes

forge, George, gorge

Definition of engorge in US English:

engorge

verb
  • 1with object Cause to swell with blood, water, or another fluid.

    使充满血(或水等液体)

    the river was engorged by a day-long deluge

    一天的大雨使河流涨满了水。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • This causes greater blood flow to the muscle, delivering more water to engorge the muscle cells with.
    • Except when engorged by spring meltwater and ice, the Severn River empties serenely into Hudson Bay.
    • This engorges your muscles with blood and improve nutrient delivery to muscle cells.
    • If you have your patient strain, you can often recognize an external hemorrhoid as it is engorged with blood and everted.
    • Following blood feeding, fully engorged mosquitoes were separated and thereafter continuously supplied with sucrose-saturated pads.
    • This helps promote a pump - the full muscular sensation you get when your target muscles are engorged with blood and fluids - by ‘opening up’ your circulatory system.
    • Yes, we had one day on a forest trail where we learned their nasty habit of attaching themselves to our skin and sucking our blood until they were so engorged that they dropped off, usually into our boots.
    • The entire upper arm becomes engorged with oxygen-rich blood, creating a positive growth environment for both muscle groups.
    • Once feeding is complete the tick is engorged with blood and will fall off.
    • Or perhaps water reminded them of floods, torrential rain, or raging engorged rivers.
    • That taut feeling in your muscles when they're engorged with blood and fluids, where you can see every vein and you think that you muscles may explode - it's inspiring, right?
    • Ticks have three life stages (larva, nymph, and adult), each of which requires a different individual host on which they attach and engorge with blood before dropping off and metamorphosing to the next stage.
    • Cal slipped easily through traffic that sat idly waiting to be engorged from one slow moving lane into another.
    • Veins which are not designed to handle so much blood so become engorged and dilated, and occasionally burst.
    • If your biceps are getting engorged with blood, you're not fully working your back.
    • If the pressure is not equalized by a larger volume of gas, the space will be filled by tissue engorged with fluid and blood.
    • Sometimes the beating of her heart was so violent that everyone around could observe it; at autopsy it was seen to be engorged with fresh blood.
    Synonyms
    swollen, bloated, tumescent, dilated, engorged, enlarged, inflated, stretched, blown up, pumped out, pumped up
  • 2engorge oneselfarchaic Eat to excess.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • They latch on to bare skin and bury their heads deep in the flesh before engorging themselves to bursting point on fresh blood.

Origin

Late 15th century (in the sense ‘gorge; eat or fill to excess’): from Old French engorgier ‘feed to excess’, from en- ‘into’ + gorge ‘throat’.

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