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Gorge

Gorge Meaning & Definition
Gorge Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Gorge?

[n] the passage between the pharynx and the stomach
[n] a narrow pass (especially one between mountains)
[n] a deep ravine (usually with a river running through it)
[v] overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself

Synonyms | Synonyms for Gorge: binge | defile | englut | engorge | esophagus | glut | gormandise | gormandize | gourmandize | gullet | ingurgitate | oesophagus | overeat | overgorge | overindulge | pig out | satiate | scarf out | stuff

Related Terms | Find terms related to Gorge: abysm | abyss | allay | arroyo | bar | barrier | batten | blank wall | blind alley | blind gut | block | blockade | blockage | bolt | bolt down | bottleneck | box canyon | breach | break | canyon | cavity | cecum | chap | chasm | check | chimney | chink | choke | choking | choking off | cleft | cleuch | clog | clough | clove | cloy | col | congest | congestion | constipation | costiveness | coulee | couloir | crack | cram | cranny | crevasse | crevice | crowd | cul-de-sac | cut | cwm | dead end | defile | dell | devour | dike | ditch | donga | draw | drench | embolism | embolus | engorge | esophagus | excavation | fauces | fault | fill | fill up | fissure | flaw | flume | fracture | furrow | gap | gape | gash | gill | glut | gluttonize | gobble | goozle | gormandize | groove | gulch | gulf | gullet | gully | gulp | gulp down | guttle | guzzle | hals | hole | impasse | impediment | incision | infarct | infarction | jade | jam | jam-pack | joint | kloof | leak | live to eat | moat | notch | nullah | obstacle | obstipation | obstruction | opening | overburden | overcharge | overdose | overeat | overfeed | overfill | overgorge | overindulge | overlade | overload | oversaturate | overstuff | overweight | pack | pall | pass | passage | pharynx | raven | ravine | rent | rift | rime | rupture | sate | satiate | satisfy | saturate | scissure | sealing off | seam | slake | slit | slot | soak | split | stall | stodge | stop | stoppage | strangulation | stuff | supercharge | supersaturate | surcharge | surfeit | swallow | throat | trench | valley | void | vomit | wadi | weasand | wizen | wolf | wolf down

See Also | alimentary canal | alimentary tract | cardiac sphincter | cram | digestive tract | digestive tube | eat | epicardia | fill | fill up | flume | gastrointestinal tract | GI tract | Grand Canyon | gulch | jam | mountain pass | muscle system | muscular structure | musculature | notch | Olduvai Gorge | pass | passage | passageway | ravine

Gorge In Webster's Dictionary

\Gorge\, n. [F. gorge, LL. gorgia, throat, narrow pass, and gorga abyss, whirlpool, prob. fr. L. gurgea whirlpool, gulf, abyss; cf. Skr. gargara whirlpool, g[.r] to devour. Cf. {Gorget}.] 1. The throat; the gullet; the canal by which food passes to the stomach. Wherewith he gripped her gorge with so great pain. --Spenser. Now, how abhorred! . . . my gorge rises at it. --Shak. 2. A narrow passage or entrance; as: (a) A defile between mountains. (b) The entrance into a bastion or other outwork of a fort; -- usually synonymous with rear. See Illust. of {Bastion}. 3. That which is gorged or swallowed, especially by a hawk or other fowl. And all the way, most like a brutish beast, e spewed up his gorge, that all did him detest. --Spenser. 4. A filling or choking of a passage or channel by an obstruction; as, an ice gorge in a river. 5. (Arch.) A concave molding; a cavetto. --Gwilt. 6. (Naut.) The groove of a pulley. {Gorge circle} (Gearing), the outline of the smallest cross section of a hyperboloid of revolution. {Gorge hook}, two fishhooks, separated by a piece of lead. --Knight.
\Gorge\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Gorged}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Gorging}.] [F. gorger. See {Gorge}, n.] 1. To swallow; especially, to swallow with greediness, or in large mouthfuls or quantities. The fish has gorged the hook. --Johnson. 2. To glut; to fill up to the throat; to satiate. The giant gorged with flesh. --Addison. Gorge with my blood thy barbarous appetite. --Dryden.
\Gorge\, v. i. To eat greedily and to satiety. --Milton.
\Gorge\, n. (Angling) 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. {Circle of the gorge} (Math.), a minimum circle on a surface of revolution, cut out by a plane perpendicular to the axis. {Gorge fishing}, trolling with a dead bait on a double hook which the fish is given time to swallow, or gorge.

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