gorged

From gorge + -ed.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɡɔːdʒd/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ɡɔːɹd͡ʒd/

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• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)dʒd

gorged (not comparable)

1. With a stomach stuffed full of food.
   • 1907, O. Henry, Two Thanksgiving Day Gentlemen:

     Gorged nearly to the uttermost when he entered the restaurant, the smell of food had almost caused him to lose his honor as a gentleman, but he rallied like a true knight.

   • 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter VI, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:

     “I don't mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera, the gorged dowagers, […], the jewelled animals whose moral code is the code of the barnyard—!"

2. (heraldry) With the neck collared or encircled by an object.
3. Having a gorge or throat.

gorged

1. simple past and past participle of gorge

• engorged
• gorge

• Dogger, dogger, rogged