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Definition of Ingurgitate
1. Verb. Overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself. "The kids binged on ice cream"
Generic synonyms: Eat
Derivative terms: Binge, Engorgement, Gorger, Gourmand, Gourmandizer, Overeating, Overindulgence
Definition of Ingurgitate
1. v. t. To swallow, devour, or drink greedily or in large quantity; to guzzle.
2. v. i. To guzzle; to swill.
Definition of Ingurgitate
1. Verb. To swallow up greedily or in large amounts; gulp; gorge; guzzle. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Ingurgitate
1. [v -TATED, -TATING, -TATES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ingurgitate
Literary usage of Ingurgitate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Popular Science Monthly (1906)
"No doubt Beattie believed with Swift that the influx of such pedantic Latinisms
as desiderate and ingurgitate and the like would result in impairing the ..."
2. A Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson, John Walker, Robert S. Jameson (1828)
"To ingurgitate, (in-gur'-je-tate) t>. n. To drink largely ; to swig.
To ingurgitate, (m-gur'-je-tate) ». a. To swallow down ; to plunge into ; to engulf. ..."
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