engorges

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In second-impact syndrome, however, the arterioles malfunction, dilating and opening a flood that engorges the brain.

From US News • Aug. 11, 2016

He stuffs, nearly engorges, this 2 hour-and-20-minute film with outrageous and gloriously visual anecdotes.

From Time • Nov. 15, 2013

He stuffs, nearly engorges, this 2 hour=hour-and-20-minute film with outrageous and gloriously visual anecdotes.

From Time • May 26, 2013

In the early morning the giant mill swallows its victims, engorges itself with entering humanity; then it grows active, stirring its ponderous might to life, movement and sound.

From The Woman Who Toils Being the Experiences of Two Gentlewomen as Factory Girls by Vorst, Marie Van

But if the lungs are weak, the blood sent from the skin by the chill engorges the weak blood-vessels, and produces an inflammation of the lungs.

From American Woman's Home by Beecher, Catharine Esther