Gorge

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A deep narrow passage with steep rocky sides; a ravine.
  • n. A narrow entrance into the outwork of a fortification.
  • n. The throat; the gullet: The gory sight made my gorge rise.
  • n. The crop of a hawk.
  • n. An instance of gluttonous eating.
  • n. The contents of the stomach; something swallowed.
  • n. A mass obstructing a narrow passage: a shipping lane blocked by an ice gorge.
  • n. The seam on the front of a coat or jacket where the lapel and the collar are joined.
  • v. To stuff with food; glut: gorged themselves with candy.
  • v. To devour greedily.
  • verb-intransitive. To eat gluttonously.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A deep narrow passage with steep rocky sides; a ravine.
  • n. The throat or gullet.
  • v. To eat greedily and in large quantities.
  • adj. Gorgeous.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The throat; the gullet; the canal by which food passes to the stomach.
  • n. A narrow passage or entrance.
  • n. A defile between mountains.
  • n. The entrance into a bastion or other outwork of a fort; -- usually synonymous with rear. See Illust. of Bastion.
  • n. That which is gorged or swallowed, especially by a hawk or other fowl.
  • n. A filling or choking of a passage or channel by an obstruction.
  • n. A concave molding; a cavetto.
  • n. The groove of a pulley.
  • n. A primitive device used instead of a fishhook, consisting of an object easy to be swallowed but difficult to be ejected or loosened, as a piece of bone or stone pointed at each end and attached in the middle to a line.
  • v. To swallow; especially, to swallow with greediness, or in large mouthfuls or quantities.
  • v. To glut; to fill up to the throat; to satiate.
  • verb-intransitive. To eat greedily and to satiety.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The throat; the gullet.
  • n. Hence —2. That which is swallowed or is provided for swallowing; the material of a meal.
  • n. The act of gorging; inordinate eating; a heavy meal: as, to indulge in a gorge after long abstinence.
  • n. A jam; a mass which chokes up a passage: as, a gorge of logs in a river; an ice-gorge.
  • n. A feeling of disgust, indignation, resentment, or the like: from the sympathetic influence of such emotions, when extreme in degree, upon the muscles of the throat.
  • n. In architecture: The narrow part of the Tuscan and Roman Doric capitals, between the astragal above the shaft of the column and the echinus; the necking or hypophyge. It is found also in some provincial Greek Doric, as at Pæstum. See cut under column.
  • n. A cavetto or hollow molding.
  • n. A narrow passage between steep rocky walls; a ravine or defile with precipitous sides.
  • n. The entrance into a bastion or other outwork of a fort. See cut under bastion.
  • n. In masonry, a little channel or up-cut on the lower side of the coping, to keep the drip from reaching the wall; a throat.
  • n. The groove in the circumference of a pulley.
  • n. A pitcher of earthenware or stoneware. Also george.
  • n. Synonyms Ravine, Defile. See valley.
  • To swallow; especially, to swallow with greediness or by gulps.
  • Hence—2. To glut; fill the throat or stomach of; satiate.
  • To feed greedily; stuff one's self.
  • n. In angling, a bait intended to be swallowed by the fish to effect its capture: usually a minnow in which a double-barbed leaded fish-hook is embedded.
  • n. A fish-hook consisting of a straight or crescent-shaped piece of stone or bone sharpened at the ends and grooved or perforated in the center: used by primitive tribes.
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  • v. overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself
  • n. the passage between the pharynx and the stomach
  • n. a deep ravine (usually with a river running through it)
  • n. a narrow pass (especially one between mountains)
  • Verb Form
    gorged    gorges    gorgess    gorging   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    Variant
    bastion   
    Form
    disgorge    engorge   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    cavetto    glut    satiate    throat    stomach    ravine    surfeit    devour    crowd    gormandize   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    George    Norge    disgorge    forge   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    ravine    chasm    precipice    glen    valley    ridge    cavern    bluff    fissure    waterfall