Hypertext Webster Gateway: "engorgement"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Engorgement \En*gorge"ment\, n. [Cf. F. engorgement.]
1. The act of swallowing greedily; a devouring with voracity;
a glutting.
2. (Med.) An overfullness or obstruction of the vessels in
some part of the system; congestion. --Hoblyn.
3. (Metal.) The clogging of a blast furnace.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
engorgement
n 1: congestion with blood; "engorgement of the breast"
2: eating ravenously or voraciously to satiation
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