1. to cause something to become filled with blood or another liquid and to swell (= become larger or rounder than normal)
   • be engorged (with something)
     ● Once feeding is complete, the tick is engorged with blood and will fall off.
   Word Originlate 15th cent. (in the sense ‘gorge; eat or fill to excess’): from Old French engorgier ‘feed to excess’, from en- ‘into’ + gorge ‘throat’.

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