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Meaning of 'gorge' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Gorge [ n.]
- The throat; the gullet; the canal by which food passes to the stomach.
- A narrow passage or entrance
- A defile between mountains.
- The entrance into a bastion or other outwork of a fort; -- usually synonymous with rear. See Illust. of Bastion.
- That which is gorged or swallowed, especially by a hawk or other fowl.
- A filling or choking of a passage or channel by an obstruction; as, an ice gorge in a river.
- A concave molding; a cavetto.
- The groove of a pulley.
- To swallow; especially, to swallow with greediness, or in large mouthfuls or quantities.
- To glut; to fill up to the throat; to satiate.
2 . Gorge [ v. i.]
- To eat greedily and to satiety.

Meaning of 'gorge' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . gorge [ v]
Meaning (1):
- overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself
Example in sentence:
  • She stuffed herself at the dinner;
  • The kids binged on ice cream

Nearby Words:

gor-bellied gor-belly goracco goral goramy gorce gorcock gorcrow gord gordiacea

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