Antonyms for engorgement
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : en-gawrj |
| Phonetic Transcription : ɛnˈgɔrdʒ |
Definition of engorgement
Origin :- 1610s, from engorge + -ment.
- As in overflow : noun flood, inundation
- As in saturation : noun fullness
- As in repletion : noun satiation
- As in satiation : noun fullness
- As in satiety : noun satiation
- This engorgement has given rise to the term "kidney of pregnancy."
- Extract from : « The Ethics of Medical Homicide and Mutilation » by Austin O'Malley
- He was sleeping off his Sunday engorgement in a porch chair.
- Extract from : « The Triumph of Virginia Dale » by John Francis, Jr.
- Congestion of the brain consists in an accumulation of blood in the vessels, also called hyperemia, or engorgement.
- Extract from : « Special Report on Diseases of the Horse » by United States Department of Agriculture
- General relaxed condition of muscles; engorgement of cerebral and pulmonary vessels.
- Extract from : « Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology » by W. G. Aitchison Robertson
- Nevertheless, it has nutritive qualities vastly superior to our ice cream, and stomach pains rarely follow an engorgement.
- Extract from : « My Attainment of the Pole » by Frederick A. Cook
- The other three, after an engorgement, rose to their cave and went to sleep for the night as we thought.
- Extract from : « My Attainment of the Pole » by Frederick A. Cook
- The lungs frequently show some dullness posteriorly, which may be due to engorgement or to the pressure of the enlarged heart.
- Extract from : « Scurvy Past and Present » by Alfred Fabian Hess
- This condition led to engorgement of the lungs and liver and increased pressure in the venous side of the circulation.
- Extract from : « Bloodletting Instruments in the National Museum of History and Technology » by Audrey Davis
- Inflammation of the membranes of the brain leads to the engorgement of the face, ears, and eyes with blood.
- Extract from : « The Expression of Emotion in Man and Animals » by Charles Darwin
- There was engorgement of blood vessels in the meninges covering the brain.
- Extract from : « Warren Commission (2 of 26): Hearings Vol. II (of 15) » by The President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy
Synonyms for engorgement
- adequateness
- advance
- ampleness
- amplitude
- broadness
- cataclysm
- cataract
- completeness
- completion
- comprehensiveness
- congestion
- copiousness
- curvaceousness
- deluge
- dilation
- discharge
- distension
- encroachment
- enforcement
- engorgement
- enlargement
- entirety
- excess
- extensiveness
- exuberance
- feeding
- fill
- filling
- flash flood
- flooding
- glut
- gratification
- impregnation
- indulgence
- infringement
- Niagara
- overabundance
- overcrowding
- overfilling
- overkill
- overload
- overmuch
- overproduction
- plenitude
- plenty
- plenum
- plethora
- pour
- profusion
- propulsion
- push
- redundancy
- repletion
- roundness
- satiety
- saturation
- scope
- slaking
- soaking
- spate
- spill
- spillover
- submergence
- submersion
- sufficiency
- superabundance
- superfluity
- surfeit
- surplus
- swelling
- torrent
- totality
- tumescence
- vastness
- voluptuousness
- wealth
- wholeness
- wideness
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