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What does engorge mean?

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Verb
  1. (transitive) To devour something greedily, gorge, glut.
  2. (intransitive) To feed ravenously.
  3. (pathology) To fill excessively with a body liquid, especially blood.
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Stress hormones flood and engorge the amygdala.
Alas, this is as apocryphal as that antbears are not supposed to engorge ants.
A superior form of arginine designed to engorge your muscles with blood, improve nutrient delivery to muscle cells, and sustain whole body pumps.
In the tear-down culture in which we engorge ourselves like ticks bloated on blood, I guess he truly is the King.
This causes greater blood flow to the muscle, delivering more water to engorge the muscle cells with.
Some flower-bat tongues end in patches of hairlike protrusions that engorge with blood and extend outward into a nectar mop.

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