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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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Some flower-bat tongues end in patches of hairlike protrusions that engorge with blood and extend outward into a nectar mop.
I had known this once, yet preoccupied by my own history of mental distress and blinded by my professional malaise – for does not the fiction-maker engorge himself with the similitude of disparate things?
Stress hormones flood and engorge the amygdala.
There is enough duck-liver mousse in his antipasto portion to spackle a room — and to engorge a diner's stomach before his meal has even properly begun.
A superior form of arginine designed to engorge your muscles with blood, improve nutrient delivery to muscle cells, and sustain whole body pumps.
This causes greater blood flow to the muscle, delivering more water to engorge the muscle cells with.

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