Definitions for gorged

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Spelling: [gawrjd]

IPA: /gɔrdʒd/

Gorged is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 81 anagrams from letters in gorged (deggor).

Definitions for gorged

noun

1. a narrow cleft with steep, rocky walls, especially one through which a stream runs.
2. a small canyon.
3. a gluttonous meal.
4. something that is swallowed; contents of the stomach.
5. an obstructing mass:
6. the seam formed at the point where the lapel meets the collar of a jacket or coat.
7. Fortification. the rear entrance or part of a bastion or similar outwork.
8. Also called gorge hook. a primitive type of fishhook consisting of a piece of stone or bone with sharpened ends and a hole or groove in the center for fastening a line.
9. the throat; gullet.

Idioms

1. make one's gorge rise, to evoke violent anger or strong disgust:

adjective

1. (of a beast) represented wearing something about the neck in the manner of a collar:

verb (used with object)

1. to stuff with food (usually used reflexively or passively):
2. to swallow, especially greedily.
3. to choke up (usually used passively).

verb (used without object)

1. to eat greedily.

Origin of gorged

First recorded in 1600-10; gorge¹ + -ed³

Examples for gorged

The Indians, as was their custom, gorged themselves on the meat, eating it half raw.

More often than not, this female ninja comes to us via a writer who has gorged on graphic novels for most of his life.

Or I, too, would sit like the night gorged with monotonous shadows.

Like an animal he likes to sleep after he has gorged himself.

The smell of food will draw a hungry creature and disgust a gorged one.

The Daily Intelligencer was gorged with letters from its readers on the subject of the grass.

gorged with its repast, there was no difficulty in getting near the lion.

By this time the children were gorged with food and distracted by many presents.

They gorged themselves in their mess halls, tossing away mountains of food as starving locals looked on.

The portion of the lungs that is not hepatized is red, and gorged with blood.