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Noun: engorgement  en'gorj-munt
  1. Congestion with blood
    "engorgement of the breast"
     
  2. Eating ravenously or voraciously to satiation

Derived forms: engorgements

See also: engorge

Type of: eating, feeding, hyperaemia [Brit, Cdn], hyperemia [N. Amer]

Encyclopedia: Engorgement

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