gorged

Adjective

(not comparable)

With a stomach stuffed full of food.
(heraldry) With the neck collared or encircled by an object.

Verb

simple past tense and past participle of gorge

Anagrams

dogger

Origin

From gorge, from French gorger, from Old French gorge

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When thus gorged with food, they are exceedingly stupid, and may then be readily caught.
In the daytime "the gorged females rest motionless on the walls and ceilings of rooms, choosing always the darkest situations for this purpose" (Austen).
When this has taken place, the gorged scorpion becomes distended and tense in the mesosomatic region.
The contrast lay between the Dominical Supper or food and drink shared unselfishly by all with all, and the private supper, the feast of Dives, shamelessly gorged under the eyes of timid and shrinking Lazarus.
Its habit is to bury its head in its victim's skin and remain there until gorged with blood, when it drops off.

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