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(verb) : ingurgĭto, āvi, ātum, 1, in-gurges
* To pour in like a flood or whirlpool.
* Lit.: merum ventri suo,App. M. 4, p. 145, 27: vide ut avariter merum in se ingurgitat faucibus plenis,Plaut. Curc. 1, 2, 35: umor ex nivibus non universus ingurgitans (sc. se), diluensque, sed destillans,Plin. 17, 2, 2, § 15.
* To flood, to fill: Rhodanus palude sese ingurgitat, nomine Lemanno,Amm. 15, 11, 16.
* Trop., to engage deeply in, be absorbed in any thing, to addict or devote one's self to: se in flagitia,Cic. Pis. 18, 42: se in alicujus copias,id. Phil. 2, 27, 66: qui degustandum ex philosophia censet, non in eam ingurgitandum,Gell. 5, 16, 5 (cf. Enn. Trag. v. 340 Rib. ad loc.).
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary

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