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Definition of gorge:
- A concave molding; a cavetto.
- A defile between mountains.
- A filling or choking of a passage or channel by an obstruction; as, an ice gorge in a river.
- A narrow passage or entrance
- 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.
- That which is gorged or swallowed, especially by a hawk or other fowl.
- The entrance into a bastion or other outwork of a fort; - usually synonymous with rear. See Illust. of Bastion.
- The groove of a pulley.
- The throat; the gullet; the canal by which food passes to the stomach.
- To eat greedily and to satiety.
- To glut; to fill up to the throat; to satiate.
- To swallow; especially, to swallow with greediness, or in large mouthfuls or quantities.
Synonyms:
gormandise, overindulge, bloated, linn, full, cloy, thrust, englut, saddle, gullet, kloof, box canyon, gap, get, flood, chuck up, snarf, overeat, gourmandize, lug, esophagus, satiate, mainline, gormandize, pall, crevasse, go in for, defile, like, col, scarf out, carsick, feed your face, squeeze, disgorge, abyss, arroyo, take/find pleasure in (doing) something, revel in, barf, drink in, gulch, basin, shove, stuff, overgorge, couloir, surfeit, flume, feast on, ravine, excess, come up, feast, replete, notch, oversupply, farce, bring up, pig out, oesophagus, have your fun, canyon, gulf, enjoy, airsick, gulley, block, go through, glen, put away, choke up, gill, engorge, pass, dell, binge, dale, delight in, love, bilious, glut, ingurgitate.
Usage examples:
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For a mile or more our road ran down a winding, rocky gorge, till suddenly it took a turn, and the country of Kaloon lay stretched before us.
- "Ayesha The Further History of She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed", H. Rider Haggard. -
The Mouth of the Gorge 48 From a photograph by Notman, Montreal.
- "The Niagara River", Archer Butler Hulbert. -
It is the mouth of a gorge in the midst of a cliff- bound coast.
- "The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne", William J. Locke.