engorging
Filling to bursting
Engorging is swelling or filling to capacity, typically with blood or fluid.
Body parts engorge—breasts during nursing, tissues during arousal, ticks feeding on blood.
The word extends to excessive consumption: engorging themselves on the buffet.
The image is always of something becoming distended, filled beyond normal size.
Swelling from internal pressure
- bulgingSwelling outward visibly
- bloatingSwollen, expanded state
- inflatingCausing to expand
- dilatingIncreasing in diameter
puffing · ballooning · expanding · turgid · tumescent · congested · plumping · filling
Eating greedily and quickly
- gorgingEating greedily, excessively
- gulpingSwallowing hastily, noisily
- wolfingEating greedily and fast
- guzzlingDrinking fast and eagerly
ingesting · swallowing · gobbling · stuffing · cramming · bolting · scarfing · inhaling
Filled beyond capacity
- gluttedOverfilled to excess
- satedFilled to excess
- repleteCompletely filled
- overfullExceeding maximum capacity
bursting · satiated · full · bloated · satisfied · surfeited · overfed · overindulged
Flooding or overwhelming completely
- delugingOverwhelming with abundance
- overwhelmingIntensely excessive in force
- saturatingFilling to total capacity
- overflowingExceeding capacity, spilling out
swamping · glutting · surging · flooding · oversupplying · overloading · overfilling · cascading
distending
Swelling from internal pressure
dilating · puffing · ballooning · expanding · turgid · tumescent · congested · plumping · filling · thickening
devouring
Eating greedily and quickly
- gorgingEating greedily, excessively
- gulpingSwallowing hastily, noisily
- wolfingEating greedily and fast
guzzling · ingesting · swallowing · gobbling · stuffing · cramming · bolting · scarfing · inhaling · feasting
stuffed
Filled beyond capacity
overfull · bursting · satiated · full · bloated · satisfied · surfeited · overfed · overindulged · stuffing
inundating
Flooding or overwhelming completely
- delugingOverwhelming with abundance
- overwhelmingIntensely excessive in force
- saturatingFilling to total capacity
overflowing · swamping · glutting · surging · flooding · oversupplying · overloading · overfilling · cascading · torrential
- Too Muchoverflowing, spilling, flooding, stuffing, cramming
engorgingstarving
Suffering extreme hunger
fasting · abstaining · nibbling · picking at · dieting
engorgingdeflating
Releasing contained gas
emptying · draining · shrinking · contracting · shriveling
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