engorger
French, verb/ɑ̃.ɡɔʁ.ʒe/
engorger is spelled E-N-G-O-R-G-E-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 10 million words in written French, the 104,709th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Engorger is a French verb meaning “to clog, clog up, congest” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Obstruer un conduit par un embarras de matières”.
What does engorger mean in English?
verb
- 1
to clog, clog up, congest
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Obstruer un conduit par un embarras de matières. 2. Obstruer des vaisseaux sanguins.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of engorger
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- engorgeant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- engorgé participle past
- engorge first-person indicative present
- engorges indicative present second-person
- engorgeons first-person indicative plural
- engorgez indicative plural present
- engorgent indicative plural present
- engorgeais first-person imperfect indicative
- engorgeait imperfect indicative singular
- engorgions first-person imperfect indicative
- engorgiez imperfect indicative plural
- engorgeaient imperfect indicative plural
- engorgeai first-person historic indicative
- engorgeas historic indicative past
- engorgea historic indicative past
- engorgeâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce engorger?
- /ɑ̃.ɡɔʁ.ʒe/
- \ɑ̃.ɡɔʁ.ʒe\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is engorger in French?
engorger appears about once in every 10 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).