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English
Etymology
Borrowed from French gavage, from gaver (“to stuff or cram”).
Pronunciation
Noun
gavage (uncountable)
- A process of force-feeding a goose for foie gras
- A process of force-feeding cattle for veal
- (medicine) Feeding by means of a tube passed into the stomach
Translations
process of force-feeding a goose
feeding by means of a tube passed into the stomach
Verb
gavage (third-person singular simple present gavages, present participle gavaging, simple past and past participle gavaged)
- To stuff or glut with something
2009 January 8, Mike Albo, “Of-the-Moment, Yet So Five Months Ago”, in New York Times:If the Panic of '08 had never happened, and the city kept gavaging itself on luxury, there would be plenty of other delis transformed into purple-colored dandy stores like this one.
French
Noun
gavage m (plural gavages)
- gavage (all senses)
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