Engorge vs Enlarge - What's the difference?
engorge | enlarge |
To devour something greedily, gorge, glut.
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, chapter=2 To feed ravenously.
(pathology) To fill excessively with a body liquid, especially blood.
To make larger.
To increase the capacity of; to expand; to give free scope or greater scope to; also, to dilate, as with joy, affection, etc.
* Bible, 2 Corinthians vi. 11
To speak at length upon'' or ''on (some subject)
* 1664 , (Samuel Butler), Hudibras 2.2.68:
(archaic) To release; to set at large.
* 1580 , (Philip Sidney), Arcadia 329:
* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , IV.8:
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* 1599 , (William Shakespeare), Henry V , Act II Scene II:
(nautical) To get more astern or parallel with the vessel's course; to draw aft; said of the wind.
(legal) To extend the time allowed for compliance with (an order or rule).
As verbs the difference between engorge and enlarge
is that engorge is while enlarge is to make larger.engorge
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enlarge
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(enlarg)- Knowledge enlarges the mind.
- O ye Corinthians, our heart is enlarged .
- I shall enlarge upon the Point.
- Like a Lionesse lately enlarged .
- Finding no meanes how I might us enlarge , / But if that Dwarfe I could with me convay, / I lightly snatcht him up and with me bore away.
- It will enlarge us from all restraints.
- Uncle of Exeter, enlarge the man committed yesterday, that rail'd against our person. We consider it was excess of wine that set him on.
- (Abbott)
