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ingurgitare — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • chug verb To move or run with a repeated dull, laboured sound, as an engine does.
  • devour verb To eat something quickly and hungrily.
  • gobble verb To eat quickly and greedily.
  • guzzle verb To drink or eat something quickly and greedily.
  • pound noun The main unit of currency in the United Kingdom, and a unit of weight equal to 16 ounces (about 454 grams).

Senses

ingurgitare is used for these senses in English:

  • chug (transitive, colloquial) To drink a large amount (especially of beer) in a single action/without breathing; to chugalug. Usually chanted at the person who is drinking.
  • devour (transitive) To eat quickly, greedily, hungrily, or ravenously.
  • devour (transitive, idiomatic) To take in avidly with the intellect or with one's gaze.
  • gobble To eat hastily or greedily; to scoff or scarf (often used with up)
  • guzzle To drink or eat quickly, voraciously, or to excess; to gulp down; to swallow greedily, continually, or with gusto.
  • pound (transitive, slang) To eat or drink very quickly.
  • scarf down (transitive, US, informal) To eat (something) quickly.

chug — full definition

  1. verb To move or run with a repeated dull, laboured sound, as an engine does.
  2. verb Informal: to drink a large amount quickly and continuously, without stopping.
  3. noun A dull, repeated, laboured sound, as of an engine working.

devour — full definition

  1. verb To eat something quickly and hungrily.
  2. verb To destroy or consume something rapidly and completely.
  3. verb To take in eagerly with the mind, especially reading material.

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