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Gormandize vs Engorge - What's the difference?

gormandize | engorge |

As verbs the difference between gormandize and engorge

is that gormandize is an alternative spelling of gourmandise while engorge is to devour something greedily, gorge, glut.

gormandize

English

Verb

(gormandiz)
  • engorge

    English

    Verb

  • To devour something greedily, gorge, glut.
  • *{{quote-book, year=2006, author=
  • , title=Internal Combustion , chapter=2 citation , passage=One typical Grecian kiln engorged one thousand muleloads of juniper wood in a single burn. Fifty such kilns would devour six thousand metric tons of trees and brush annually.}}
  • To feed ravenously.
  • (pathology) To fill excessively with a body liquid, especially blood.