(v. t.) To swallow with greediness or in large quantities; to devour.
(v. i.) To feed with eagerness or voracity; to stuff one's self with food.
Example Sentences:
(1) A total of 3,532 females of various engorged weights was collected from all calves, resulting in a mean female tick yield of 1.78% based on the number of larvae used for all infestations.
(2) Extremely high concentrations of Vg were observed in the hemolymph of female nymphs (fourth instar), particularly engorged nymphs, treated with CyM (10 micrograms).
(3) The percentage of nymphs infected correlated with the viremic titer on the final day of engorgement (the time of maximum blood uptake).
(4) In addition to increased numbers and weights of larvae engorging on tick-resistant animals depleted of complement, the basophil packed lesion at the tick attachment site was greatly reduced.
(5) At two visits in the first two weeks postpartum, infants were weighted naked, and mothers reported the magnitude of postpartum breast engorgement when their milk came in.
(6) However, no engorging females of any of the tick species were found on treated animals.
(7) The average weight of blood portion in females of different species engorged for the first time ranged from 0.05 mg (X. conformis) to 0.72 mg (C. lamellifer).
(8) Only six patients exhibited at least two symptoms of mammary engorgement (congestion and pain or milk let-down): in this group, blood mean PRL levels were significantly less suppressed on postpartum days 2, 6, 21 and 28 (p less than 0.05 to p less than 0.001) than in the group of mothers completely free of any mammary symptoms.
(9) Foci of alveoli filled with alveolar macrophages engorged with diesel particles were scattered in the lung parenchyma.
(10) Subsequent to a final rapid phase of engorgement, the basophilic cell reorganizes its cisternae of rough endoplasmic reticulum into whorls and parallel arrays and resumes a secretory role.
(11) This paper describes the development of the gland cells and formation of the intra-cuticular lumen and its ultrastructure during engorgement and oviposition in ixodid ticks.
(12) A single subcutaneous injection resulted in significantly fewer engorged female B. decoloratus on treated animals for up to 28 d after treatment.
(13) A single specimen, a partially engorged female, of Ixodes brunneus was recovered from a common grackle (Quiscalus quiscula) in Butler County, near El Dorado, Kansas (USA).
(14) Amblyomma cohaerens nymphs, which had been collected as engorged larvae from African buffalo (Syncerus caffer) in the Mara region of Kenya, transmitted a theilerial parasite to a steer.
(15) Adult A. variegatum engorged to more than 2.49 x were affected by immersion in water for longer than 7 days.
(16) triseriatus engorging on the dogs 1-5 days after feeding by infected mosquitoes failed to become infected.
(17) A periorbital bruit and venous engorgement of the palpebral and bulbar conjunctivae are pathognomonic features.
(18) Ticks fed on ivermectin-treated cattle had a smaller mass when engorged and laid smaller egg-masses, both absolutely and as a proportion of engorged mass.
(19) A dot blot hybridization procedure was developed to detect human blood meals in engorged mosquitoes.
(20) Nascent virus was first visualized by TEM in several tissues, including midgut, fat body, and salivary glands, of high-titer-infected mosquitoes 48 h after they engorged.
Indulge
Definition:
(v. t.) To be complacent toward; to give way to; not to oppose or restrain
(v. t.) to give free course to; to give one's self up to; as, to indulge sloth, pride, selfishness, or inclinations;
(v. t.) to yield to the desire of; to gratify by compliance; to humor; to withhold restraint from; as, to indulge children in their caprices or willfulness; to indulge one's self with a rest or in pleasure.
(v. t.) To grant as by favor; to bestow in concession, or in compliance with a wish or request.
(v. i.) To indulge one's self; to gratify one's tastes or desires; esp., to give one's self up (to); to practice a forbidden or questionable act without restraint; -- followed by in, but formerly, also, by to.
Example Sentences:
(1) Byrne's Nursie had the same indefatigable garrulousness, the same sense that she knew all the worst things about her charge – Miranda Richardson's bibulous Queen Elizabeth – so Gloriana and the rest had to indulge her.
(2) The lender will also have to take a 5% hit, to ensure it does not indulge in offering risky loans.
(3) So should we indulge our nut cravings or will that just add inches to the waist?
(4) I believe that both Nan and I had such a strong marriage that it was possible.” And she was prepared to indulge his experiments?
(5) Keith Richards , after all, used to indulge in speedballs of cocaine and heroin with such regularity that he cheerily referred to the toxic cocktail as "the breakfast of champions".
(6) He confessed to over-indulgence in this pleasure at some stages of his life, and to the recreational use of drugs.
(7) When election strategists brought in to pour over Ghani’s speeches told him to swear off coffee on rally days to strengthen his voice, he gave up one of his very few indulgences immediately.
(8) Early opportunities to indulge his skill for making unctuousness compelling came in the roles of a school snitch in the Al Pacino vehicle Scent of a Woman (1992), for which Hoffman auditioned five times.
(9) The chaddi [underwear] symbolises vulgarity, something Muthalik's men indulged in when they molested the girls in Mangalore, and pink adds shock value.
(10) This was the logic that initially led the coalition to reject Heathrow expansion, so why is it now, indulged if not quite supported by the opposition, drifting inexorably towards a new runway in the south-east?
(11) This is a character deliriously doomed to repetitive self-indulgence.
(12) They cut taxes on corporate Britain while indulging in entirely destructive gimmicks such as scrapping the 10p tax rate.
(13) However, it seems that other types of viruses (e.g., tobamoviruses, tombusviruses) do not indulge in regular gene exchange and that common gene pools, distinct from each other, do not occur.
(14) John Byrom, a lazy, self-indulgent 18th-century versifier, had three black hedgehogs on his coat of arms.
(15) There were also significantly elevated risks associated with occasional indulgence in these four habits.
(16) Her main project is new girl Tai (the late Brittany Murphy) who arrives at school as a clumsy, unconfident "ugly duckling" ripe for making over – allowing the film to indulge in that wonderful 80s teen movie trope: the dressing up montage.
(17) It was another popular choice at a closing night ceremony indulgently received by the Cannes crowd.
(18) This is not about benevolent indulgence but achievement of genuine equality in support and contribution.
(19) This idea is quite contrary to the traditional view that the ancient Maya were a contemplative people, who did not indulge in ritual ecstasy.
(20) Smith responded by saying he would not “indulge in gossip”.