ingurgitate

Other forms of ingurgitate

past tense

ingurgitated·

present participle

ingurgitating·

third person

ingurgitates·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about ingurgitate

What does ingurgitate mean?

ingurgitate means "overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself".

How many syllables are in ingurgitate?

ingurgitate has 4 syllables: in-gur-gi-tate. The stress falls on "gur".

What is another word for ingurgitate?

Close synonyms include gorge, overindulge, glut, englut, stuff. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is ingurgitate a common word?

ingurgitate is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.