gorged
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When the colleagues finally meet, they lament Wilde’s verdict; John thunders: “The country has choked itself on ill-feeling. Gorged on misery and heavy morals. Laughed themselves sick.”
From Washington Post • Dec. 29, 2022
Gorged on deviled eggs in the Student Union, supine banqueters cheered a female snake dancer.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Gorged, they alighted by his runnels of sweat and drank.
From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding
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Gorged with meat and drink one night, he sprawled upon his bed, indigestus, as you may say, and he never woke more.
From The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886 by Various
Gorged to repletion, the great reptile fell asleep, being discovered by the servants the next morning.
From Where the Strange Trails Go Down Sulu, Borneo, Celebes, Bali, Java, Sumatra, Straits Settlements, Malay States, Siam, Cambodia, Annam, Cochin-China by Powell, E. Alexander (Edward Alexander)