Meaning

The act of swallowing greedily or immoderately; gulp..

Definitions by Sense

1. The act of swallowing greedily or immoderately; gulp.
2. That which is so swallowed greedily or immoderately.

Example Sentences

And it is written of Epicurus, that he procured the same for himself; for after his disease was judged desperate, he drowned his stomach and senses with a large draught and ingurgitation of wine ...

So much then for my intellectual formation, or, if you prefer, my "cultural baggage," constituted for the most part of lacunas and contained in the kind of colander that is my brain, retaining here and there a few scraps of knowledge, at least consciously, for after all it is possible that the ingurgitation of Kant and Spinoza, as with mathematics, forcibly as it were, and of which I do not have a very clear recollection either, may, without me knowing it, have contributed to shaping it ...

Debilitated people, who have been unfortunately accustomed to great ingurgitation of spirituous potation, frequently part with a great quantity of water during the night, but with not more than usual in the day-time.

I have lain on the floor of the sea and breathed with the breathing of the sea-anemone, swallowed with ingurgitation of the sponge.

In America, the basically Puritan foundations were undermined by the ingurgitation of German transcendentalism ...

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