'Gorge' definitions:

Definition of 'gorge'

(from WordNet)
noun
A deep ravine (usually with a river running through it)
noun
A narrow pass (especially one between mountains) [syn: defile, gorge]
noun
The passage between the pharynx and the stomach [syn: esophagus, oesophagus, gorge, gullet]
verb
Overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself; "She stuffed herself at the dinner"; "The kids binged on ice cream" [syn: gorge, ingurgitate, overindulge, glut, englut, stuff, engorge, overgorge, overeat, gormandize, gormandise, gourmandize, binge, pig out, satiate, scarf out]

Definition of 'Gorge'

From: GCIDE
  • Gorge \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. [1913 Webster]
  • Wherewith he gripped her gorge with so great pain. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
  • Now, how abhorred! . . . my gorge rises at it. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. That which is gorged or swallowed, especially by a hawk or other fowl. [1913 Webster]
  • And all the way, most like a brutish beast, e spewed up his gorge, that all did him detest. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. A filling or choking of a passage or channel by an obstruction; as, an ice gorge in a river. [1913 Webster]
  • 5. (Arch.) A concave molding; a cavetto. --Gwilt. [1913 Webster]
  • 6. (Naut.) The groove of a pulley. [1913 Webster]
  • 7. (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. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
  • Gorge circle (Gearing), the outline of the smallest cross section of a hyperboloid of revolution.
  • 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.
  • Gorge hook, two fishhooks, separated by a piece of lead. --Knight. [1913 Webster + Webster 1913 Suppl.]

Definition of 'Gorge'

From: GCIDE
  • Gorge \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. [1913 Webster]
  • The fish has gorged the hook. --Johnson. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To glut; to fill up to the throat; to satiate. [1913 Webster]
  • The giant gorged with flesh. --Addison. [1913 Webster]
  • Gorge with my blood thy barbarous appetite. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Gorge'

From: GCIDE
  • Gorge \Gorge\, v. i. To eat greedily and to satiety. --Milton. [1913 Webster]

Synonyms of 'gorge'

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