Gorged
[gɔ:dʒd]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Gorge
(a.) Having a gorge or throat.
(a.) Bearing a coronet or ring about the neck.
(a.) Glutted; fed to the full.
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Examples
- It may be that the early sub-man sometimes played jackal to the sabre-toothed tiger, and finished up the bodies on which the latter had gorged itself. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- My foreign market, at any rate, is gorged. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- It did not cease till the Atlantic was strewn with wrecks: it did not lull till the deeps had gorged their full of sustenance. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- My vengeance is awake, and she is a falcon that slumbers not till she has been gorged. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- I, wealthy--gorged with gold I never earned and do not merit! Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- He gorged himself habitually at table, which made him bilious, and gave him a dim and bleared eye and flabby cheeks. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
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