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engorge
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en·gorge (n-gôrj)
v.
To fill to excess, as with blood or other fluid.

en·gorgement n.


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To estimate the probability of a tick's becoming infected after engorging on a green lizard and to measure the degree of infectiousness of infected animals, specific infectivity [I.
Mechanical vacuum devices cause erection by creating a partial vacuum, which draws blood into the penis, engorging and expanding it.
And at dawn, when its streets are largely deserted and its buildings not engorging or regurgitating endless streams of people, one can feel almost in possession of Manhattan, an object usually indifferent to my attentions.
 
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