engorge on

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engorge (itself) on someone or something and engorge (itself) with something

[for an animal] to drink its fill of blood. The vampire bat engorged itself on a number of creatures last night. Mosquitoes engorge on human victims. The mosquitoes engorged themselves with my blood all night long.

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Six months after they were initially infected, when vector ticks no longer acquired spirochetes from them, eight infected nymphs were permitted to engorge on each bird. Competence of American robins as reservoir hosts for Lyme disease ... by Matuschka, Franz-Rainer / Emerging Infectious Diseases More results

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