ungorge
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To discharge or relinquish.
Example Sentences
- "Well, Phoebus, well, drink on, I say, drink on; But when thou dost ungorge thee, grant me this, Thou pour thy poisons on the head of John."
- "For gluttonizing his ore-charged chest, He neither can ungorge, nor yet digest , Till surfitted to death, he loaths it more Than ere he did embrace, or love before:"
- "It was as though he had vomited them: immediately, they surprised him; they also brought him a quick sense of relief and dread, relief in the way vomiting can relieve, can ungorge and ease and suddenly make breathing easier; and dread, that more gagging and painful heaving was to come before the night would pass."
- "They thought evil, 'God disposed it to good;' they, to ungorge themselves of that venomous malice which the prosperity of Joseph, conceived from his dreams, instilled into their hearts;"
- "Or why not plunge thy blades about Some maggot politician throng, Swarming to parcel out The body of the land, and rout The maw-conventicle, and ungorge Wrong?"
- "The boy laid his slate and book down on the platform and proceeded to ungorge himself, Mr Fledger's hands being spread out in readiness to receive the spoil. There emerged first a double handful of marbles, some of which spilt themselves over and rolled about the schoolroom floor, to be picked up and appropriated by the watchful pupils."
Etymology
From un- + gorge.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: un