Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth 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.
- v. To eat gluttonously.
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.
Wiktionary
- n. A deep narrow passage with steep rocky sides; a ravine.
- n. The throat or gullet.
- v. reflexive To eat greedily and in large quantities.
- adj. UK, slang Gorgeous.
GNU Webster's 1913
- 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 . SeeIllust. 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. (Arch.) A concave molding; a cavetto.
- n. (Naut.) The groove of a pulley.
- 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.
- 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.
- v. To eat greedily and to satiety.
WordNet 3.0
- 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)
Etymologies
- Shortened from gorgeous. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English, throat, from Old French, from Late Latin gurga, perhaps from Latin gurges, whirlpool, abyss. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Gouging it's way ever downward into the gorge is a river.”
“Lake Linderman was no more than a narrow mountain gorge filled with water.”
“Telling that to people in the gorge is like telling Saudia Arabia to conserve gasoline.”
Getting to third base with our pristine Columbia Gorge (Jack Bog's Blog)
“The mountain gorge which was its source rang to the rising tide of it until it brimmed over and flooded earth and sky and air.”
“Sounds about right, both of them talk libertarian but gorge from the federal trough. blog comments powered by Disqus publicola nerds”
“The gorge is a very steep sided ravine roughly 30 miles long and 295 ft. deep which forms part of the Great Rift Valley.”
“Even Las Vegas has cloudy days, and even the Columbia gorge is calm once in a while!”
“Anthropological studies and old copies of scurrilous newspapers suggest that the will to gorge is universal.”
“ID will contend that carving a gorge is not equivalent to the complexity of the flagellum.”
“The height of the cliffs on either side of the gorge is so tremendous that the wailing of the gibbons (see Note 15) in the woods above sounds as though it came from the sky.”
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GRE Barrons Wordlist
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bad memory
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Alternatives to EAT
Eat is a boring word.
chew, devour, gorge, feed, nibble, wolf, ruminate, scoff, munch, crunch, swallow
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Words that contain both a "hard G" and a "soft G".
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I am : hungry
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the earth
Planetary chaos: terrain, landscape and geology excluding rocks. (See "the geologist" list for the latter.)
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kjola also: short for gorgeous Sep 16, 2009