Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Sated; over-fed.
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Examples
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Here, crammed to the brim, he may retire to hibernate, curled up like a full-gorged bear and ready to roll downhill with the melting snows and arrive at the sea-coast in time to begin again.
Alone Norman Douglas 1910
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He was marked down by a little water-hole at the head of a ravine, full-gorged and half asleep in the May sunlight.
The Day's Work - Volume 1 Rudyard Kipling 1900
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Well, then, you know how every Alpine stream, as it flows, full-gorged, into the Italian lakes, is busily engaged in filling them up as fast as ever it can with turbid mud from the uplands.
Science in Arcady Grant Allen 1873
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"De Estrada and the black man and the few soldiers who still lived went searching for him and found him stretched in bestial sleep in a clump of chaparral; full-gorged he was with human blood from his last victim.
People of the Dark Howard, Robert E. 2005
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