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单词 overgorged
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overgorgedadj.

Brit. /ˌəʊvəˈɡɔːdʒd/, U.S. /ˌoʊvərˈɡɔrdʒd/
Forms: see over- prefix and gorged adj.1
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: overgorge v., -ed suffix1.
Etymology: < overgorge v. + -ed suffix1.
That has been gorged too much. Also figurative.
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the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > appetite > excessive consumption of food or drink > [adjective] > over-fed, gorged, or sated
full of foodOE
surfeitousc1390
repletea1400
satiate1440
fulsome1447
overfed1579
surfeited1584
gorged1594
overgorged1607
gluttoneda1658
saturated1658
throat-full1681
quat?c1730
stalled1740
englutted1814
cloyed1830
stodged1873
1607 J. Davies Summa Totalis sig. K An ouer-gorged Stomack makes An aking Head.
1785 W. Cowper Task i. 737 Thieves at home must hang, but he that puts Into his overgorg'd and bloated purse The wealth of Indian provinces, escapes.
1814 Ld. Byron Lara ii. vii. 794 Such as long power and overgorged success Concentrates into all that's merciless.
1871 T. Baines North. Goldfield Diaries 16 Aug. (1946) III. 679 No-one ever saw him drunk, unless a kind of stupor, like that of an overgorged snake, can be called so.
1911 Jrnl. Royal Statist. Soc. 75 77 The stove, overgorged with these preposterous sticks, set fire to the panelling.
2001 Irish Times (Nexis) 15 May 15 They are the Eurocrats, the vastly overpaid nomenklatura who are drawn to the overgorged centre of the EU in Brussels.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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