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gorge

UK /ɡɔːdʒ/US /ɡɔɹd͡ʒ/

noun12

  1. A deep, narrow passage with steep, rocky sides, particularly one with a stream running through it; a ravine.
  2. Food that has been taken into the gullet or the stomach, particularly if it is regurgitated or vomited out.
  3. An act of gorging.
  4. (US) A choking or filling of a channel or passage by an obstruction; the obstruction itself.
  5. The throat of a flower.
  6. A concave moulding; a cavetto.
  7. The groove of a pulley.
  8. The rearward side of an outwork, a bastion, or a fort, often open, or not protected against artillery; a narrow entry passage into the outwork of an enclosed fortification.
  9. A primitive device used instead of a hook to catch fish, consisting of an object that is easy to swallow but difficult to eject or loosen, such as a piece of bone or stone pointed at each end and attached in the middle to a line.
  10. [usually plural] A whirlpool used as a heraldic charge.
  11. (no longer used) The front aspect of the neck; the outside of the throat.
  12. (literary, no longer used) The inside of the throat; the esophagus, the gullet; (falconry, specifically) the crop or gizzard of a hawk.

verb4

  1. [with oneself] To stuff the gorge or gullet with food; to eat greedily and in large quantities.
  2. To swallow, especially with greediness, or in large mouthfuls or quantities.
  3. To fill up to the throat; to glut, to satiate.
  4. To fill up (an organ, a vein, etc.); to block up or obstruct; (US, specifically) of ice: to choke or fill a channel or passage, causing an obstruction.

adjective1

  1. (slang) Gorgeous.
forms

gorged · gorging · gorges · gorgeth · gorgest · more gorge · most gorge

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