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Definition of Gorge
1. Verb. Overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself. "The kids binged on ice cream"
Generic synonyms: Eat
Derivative terms: Binge, Engorgement, Gorger, Gourmand, Gourmandizer, Overeating, Overindulgence
2. Noun. A deep ravine (usually with a river running through it).
Specialized synonyms: Flume, Gulch
Generic synonyms: Ravine
3. Noun. A narrow pass (especially one between mountains).
4. Noun. The passage between the pharynx and the stomach.
Generic synonyms: Passage, Passageway, Muscle System, Muscular Structure, Musculature
Group relationships: Alimentary Canal, Alimentary Tract, Digestive Tract, Digestive Tube, Gastrointestinal Tract, Gi Tract
Terms within: Epicardia, Cardiac Sphincter
Derivative terms: Esophageal
Definition of Gorge
1. n. The throat; the gullet; the canal by which food passes to the stomach.
2. v. t. To swallow; especially, to swallow with greediness, or in large mouthfuls or quantities.
3. v. i. To eat greedily and to satiety.
4. n. 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.
Definition of Gorge
1. Noun. A deep narrow passage with steep rocky sides; a ravine. ¹
2. Noun. The throat or gullet. ¹
3. Verb. (context: reflexive followed by '''on''') To eat greedily and in large quantities. ¹
4. Adjective. (slang) Gorgeous. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Gorge
1. to stuff with food [v GORGED, GORGING, GORGES] : GORGEDLY [adv]
Medical Definition of Gorge
1. 1. The throat; the gullet; the canal by which food passes to the stomach. "Wherewith he gripped her gorge with so great pain." (Spenser) "Now, how abhorred! . . . My gorge rises at it." (Shak) 2. A narrow passage or entrance; as: A defile between mountains. The entrance into a bastion or other outwork of a fort; usually synonymous with rear. 3. That which is gorged or swallowed, especially by a hawk or other fowl. "And all the way, most like a brutish beast,< e spewed up his gorge, that all did him detest." (Spenser) 4. A filling or choking of a passage or channel by an obstruction; as, an ice gorge in a river. 5. A concave molding; a cavetto. 6. The groove of a pulley. Gorge circle, the outline of the smallest cross-section of a hyperboloid of revolution. Gorge hook, two fishhooks, separated by a piece of lead. Origin: F. Gorge, LL. Gorgia, throat, narrow pass, and gorga abyss, whirlpool, prob. Fr. L. Gurgea whirlpool, gulf, abyss; cf. Skr. Gargara whirlpool, go to devour. Cf. Gorget. 1. To swallow; especially, to swallow with greediness, or in large mouthfuls or quantities. "The fish has gorged the hook." (Johnson) 2. To glut; to fill up to the throat; to satiate. "The giant gorged with flesh." (Addison) "Gorge with my blood thy barbarous appetite." (Dryden) Origin: F. Gorger. See Gorge. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gorge
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