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Gorged vs Hepatization - What's the difference?

gorged | hepatization |

As an adjective gorged

is with a stomach stuffed full of food.

As a verb gorged

is (gorge).

As a noun hepatization is

(medicine) the conversion into a substance resembling the liver; a state of the lungs when gorged with effused matter, so that they are no longer pervious to the air.

gorged

English

Adjective

(-)
  • With a stomach stuffed full of food.
  • *(rfdate) ,
  • *: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.
  • *
  • *:“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—!"
  • (lb) With the neck collared or encircled by an object.
  • Verb

    (head)
  • (gorge)
  • Anagrams

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    hepatization

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • (medicine) The conversion into a substance resembling the liver; a state of the lungs when gorged with effused matter, so that they are no longer pervious to the air.