Overgorges

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. To consume food or drink to an excessive degree; to gorge oneself beyond normal capacity; to fill or stuff excessively with an overabundance of nourishment
2. To eat or swallow with extreme greediness and excessiveness; to cram or stuff oneself beyond comfort or limit; to indulge in an inordinate intake of sustenance
3. To devour or ingest large quantities of food or drink excessively; to overload or overfill one's stomach by overeating; to partake in a surfeit of edible matter beyond the point of satiety

Etymology: "Overgorges" is the third-person singular form of "overgorge," a verb built from the prefix "over-" and the verb "gorge." The base is the more interesting half. "Gorge" comes from Old French "gorge," meaning throat, and that French word goes back to Latin "gurges," a whirlpool or abyss. The idea of a throat as a channel for swallowing gave the English verb its sense of stuffing food down, while the noun "gorge," meaning a narrow ravine, comes from the same root through the image of a steep, swallowing cleft in rock. Adding "over-" intensifies the sense into excess: to gorge beyond what is comfortable or sensible. The construction is a straightforward English formation, so the prefix does the work of turning ordinary gorging into the inordinate kind.

Synonyms: overeats, overfeeds, binge eats, stuff oneself, pig out

Antonyms: fasts, starves, diet, restricts, undereats