to greedily swallow.
Usually used in reference to literature.
We all know the antonym "regurgitation".
I am again reading some Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch and finding a plethora of material for The Alpha Agora.
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Re: ingurgitation
What do you mean here? To greedily swallow or devour books? Or is it a literary term, not generally used?Usually used in reference to literature.
One example I saw was about the floodwaters ingurgitating trees and houses.
Has anyone ever wondered why we don't have the verb gurgitate?
It's related to gorgeous, by the way.
Though it's root is in water, I wonder if we could say the Ft. McMurray wildfire has ingurgitated (i.e. greedily devoured) thousands of hectares of trees and some 10% of the city itself.
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