Gorge
[gɔːdʒ] or [ɡɔrdʒ]
Definition
(noun.) a deep ravine (usually with a river running through it).
(verb.) overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself; 'She stuffed herself at the dinner'; 'The kids binged on ice cream'.
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Definition
(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; as, an ice gorge in a river.
(n.) A concave molding; a cavetto.
(n.) The groove of a pulley.
(n.) To swallow; especially, to swallow with greediness, or in large mouthfuls or quantities.
(n.) To glut; to fill up to the throat; to satiate.
(v. i.) To eat greedily and to satiety.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Ravine, defile, notch.
v. a. [1]. Swallow, devour, eat heartily.[2]. Glut, satiate, cram, stuff, fill full, fill to repletion.
v. n. Feed, eat greedily.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See GLUT_and_SWALLOW]
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Definition
n. the throat: a narrow pass among hills: (fort.) the entrance to an outwork.—v.t. to swallow greedily: to glut.—v.i. to feed.—adj. Gorged having a gorge or throat: glutted: (her.) having a crown or coronet about the neck.—n. Gorg′et a piece of armour for the throat: a military ornament round the neck (see Armour).—Have one's gorge rise to be disgusted or irritated; Heave the gorge to retch.
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Examples
- But I will drop it in that gorge like a broken bird cage. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- I'll have to take me a spit in that gorge too. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- At any moment, however, the barrier might fall, and Justinian lost no time in rendering the guns innocuous, if he were forced to retreat up the gorge. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- I wish to pull down the barrier, so that when the pirates come up to assault, they will find no difficulty in passing up the gorge. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- They told me in Beirout (these people who always gorge you with advice) that it was madness to travel in Syria without an umbrella. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Pablo went over to the nearest tree and watched down the slope, across the slope and up the road across the gorge. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Then Agustín grabbed his arm and pointed and he looked across the gorge and saw Pablo. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- It may be that the early sub-man sometimes played jackal to the sabre-toothed tiger, and finished up the bodies on which the latter had gorged itself. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- My foreign market, at any rate, is gorged. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- It did not cease till the Atlantic was strewn with wrecks: it did not lull till the deeps had gorged their full of sustenance. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- My vengeance is awake, and she is a falcon that slumbers not till she has been gorged. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- I, wealthy--gorged with gold I never earned and do not merit! Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- He gorged himself habitually at table, which made him bilious, and gave him a dim and bleared eye and flabby cheeks. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
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