gorge

IPA: gˈɔrdʒ

(archaic) The front aspect of the neck; the outside of the throat.
(archaic, literary) The inside of the throat; the esophagus, the gullet; (falconry, specifically) the crop or gizzard of a hawk.
Food that has been taken into the gullet or the stomach, particularly if it is regurgitated or vomited out.
(US) A choking or filling of a channel or passage by an obstruction; the obstruction itself.
(architecture) A concave moulding; a cavetto.
(architecture, military, fortification) 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.
(fishing) 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.
(geography) A deep, narrow passage with steep, rocky sides, particularly one with a stream running through it; a ravine.
(mechanical engineering) The groove of a pulley.
An act of gorging.
A male given name

(intransitive, reflexive) To stuff the gorge or gullet with food; to eat greedily and in large quantities. [+ on (object)]
(transitive) To swallow, especially with greediness, or in large mouthfuls or quantities.
(transitive) To fill up to the throat; to glut, to satiate.
(transitive) 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.

Examples of "gorge" in Sentences

Gouging it's way ever downward into the gorge is a river.
Lake Linderman was no more than a narrow mountain gorge filled with water.
Even Las Vegas has cloudy days, and even the Columbia gorge is calm once in a while!
Telling that to people in the gorge is like telling Saudia Arabia to conserve gasoline.
Anthropological studies and old copies of scurrilous newspapers suggest that the will to gorge is universal.
The gorge is a very steep sided ravine roughly 30 miles long and 295 ft. deep which forms part of the Great Rift Valley.
The mountain gorge which was its source rang to the rising tide of it until it brimmed over and flooded earth and sky and air.
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