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Gorge

Noun

Definitions

1.NounThe front aspect of the neck; the outside of the throat.
2.NounThe inside of the throat; the esophagus, the gullet; the crop or gizzard of a hawk.
3.NounThe throat of a flower.
4.NounFood that has been taken into the gullet or the stomach, particularly if it is regurgitated or vomited out.
"My gorge rises at the sight of it."
5.NounA choking or filling of a channel or passage by an obstruction; the obstruction itself.
"an ice gorge in a river"
6.NounA concave moulding; a cavetto.
7.NounThe 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.
8.NounA 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.
9.NounA deep, narrow passage with steep, rocky sides, particularly one with a stream running through it; a ravine.
10.NounThe groove of a pulley.
11.NounA whirlpool used as a heraldic charge.
12.VerbTo stuff the gorge or gullet with food; to eat greedily and in large quantities. .mw-parser-output .object-usage-tag{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output .deprecated{color:var(--wikt-palette-grey-lime-8,olivedrab)}[with on]
"They gorged themselves on chocolate and cake."
13.VerbTo swallow, especially with greediness, or in large mouthfuls or quantities.
14.VerbTo fill up to the throat; to glut, to satiate.
15.VerbTo fill up (an organ, a vein, etc.); to block up or obstruct; of ice: to choke or fill a channel or passage, causing an obstruction.
16.NounAn act of gorging.
17.AdjectiveGorgeous.
"Oh, look at him: isn’t he gorge?"
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