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Discover LudwigThe word "gorged" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe something that has been filled with food or drink to excess, or a narrow area that has been filled with objects. Example sentence: The guests gorged themselves on the delicious buffet at the reception.
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gorged
verb
Past of gorge
Exact(60)
Passionate about the theatre, on visits to England he gorged himself, often seeing five plays in a week.
The whole campus was humid with it! tumid with it! lubricated with it! gorged with it! tingling with it! in a state of around-the-clock arousal with it!
In an effort to remain there, they gorged more.
Many casino firms, including Harrah's Entertainment and Station Casinos, gorged on debt to finance expansion in the belief that Las Vegas would be impervious to a downturn.
During the global economic crisis, similar swings plunged many borrowers in the region into deep water: they had gorged on low-interest loans (especially mortgages) denominated in Swiss francs, only to find themselves unable to meet payments when the franc's value rose sharply in 2009.
With few retail deposits to speak of, the firm gorged on long-term debt and commercial paper to fund its lending.
The maggots gorged and tumbled in the carrion, as balls of rain as big as them and 50 times as heavy came down like meteorites to pound and shake their caverns and their dells".There are moments in "Make Believe", by Joanna Scott, which uncannily parallel Mr Crace's slow-motion breakdown of matter.
Although many other big firms resisted the temptation to over-borrow, developers gorged on cheap debt and built bigger and swankier hotels as if the whole world were planning a holiday in Las Vegas.
Greedy chief executives, abetted by weak, sycophantic boards, gorged themselves at the expense of savers more often than not the very pension and mutual-fund investors who, as workers, had seen their salaries and benefit packages fail to grow.To add to the grievance, many executives did not seem to deserve such rewards.
The blame lay with the "Shylock" foreign creditors who, having gorged on Mexico's "petroleum blood", soon wanted the flesh as well.
The banks gorged themselves on a last helping of subsidised debt in 2005 just in time to become major holders of toxic American securities that crashed in 2008.
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