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English
Etymology
over- + gorge
Verb
overgorge (third-person singular simple present overgorges, present participle overgorging, simple past and past participle overgorged)
- To gorge to excess.
1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, ”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :ambitious Sylla, overgorged
With gobbets of thy mother's bleeding heart
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