'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
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'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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