different between gorged vs saturated

English

Etymology

gorge +? -ed

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???d?d/
• (US) IPA^(key): /????d?d/

Adjective

gorged (not comparable)

1. With a stomach stuffed full of food.
   • 1907, O. Henry, Two Thanksgiving Day Gentlemen

     Gorged nearly to the uttermost when he entered the restaurant, the smell of food had almost caused him to lose his honor as a gentleman, but he rallied like a true knight.

   • “I don't mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera, the gorged dowagers, […], the jewelled animals whose moral code is the code of the barnyard—!"

2. (heraldry) With the neck collared or encircled by an object.
3. Having a gorge or throat.

Translations

Verb

gorged

1. simple past tense and past participle of gorge

Related terms

• engorged
• gorge

Anagrams

• Dogger, dogger, rogged

English

Verb

saturated

1. simple past tense and past participle of saturate

Adjective

saturated (comparative more saturated, superlative most saturated)

1. (not comparable) Full; unable to hold or contain any more.
2. (comparable) Soaked or drenched with moisture.

   Synonyms: drenched, saturated, sodden; see also Thesaurus:wet

4. (not comparable, chemistry, of a solution) Containing all the solute that can normally be dissolved at a given temperature.
5. (chemistry) Having all available valence bonds filled; especially of any organic compound containing only single bonds between carbon atoms.
6. (color) Having a high level of saturation.

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References

• saturated at OneLook Dictionary Search