engorge itself on (someone or something)

engorge itself on (someone or something)

Of an insect or animal, to drink and fill itself with blood. The tick had already engorged itself on your blood by the time we discovered it on your body.
See also: engorge, itself, on
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

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.
See also: engorge, on
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • engorge
  • engorge on
  • after (one's) blood
  • after your blood
  • bleed out
  • be after (one's) blood
  • be after/out for somebody's blood
  • in blood
  • in one’s blood
  • in your blood