Definitions for Gorges

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Gorges gorge

Spelling: [gawrj]

IPA: /gɔrdʒ/

Gorges is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 79 anagrams from letters in Gorges (eggors).

Definitions for Gorges

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.
10. gurge (def 2).

Idioms

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

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 Gorges

1325-75; (v.) Middle English Old French gorger, derivative of gorge throat Vulgar Latin *gorga, akin to Latin gurguliō gullet, throat, gurges whirlpool, eddy

Examples for Gorges

Then the flock of cockatoos settles on the maize and gorges as fast as it can.

St. nimie is not once mentioned, and nothing is said about the gorges of the Tarn.

All about me are grand views, for the clouds are playing again in the gorges.

These were then spread over a 300-mile radius, covered in ravines, gorges and pine forests.

The rest forsook the mules and took to the gorges, where the horses could not follow them.

Mere ravines and gorges and caons would not do for this party.

The town was spared the customary flames, for causes unknown to gorges.

She is a perpetually single woman in her 30s who gorges on junk food.

He was, no doubt, at present in the gorges beyond the forests of the Mambava.

Upon this gorges pushed Raleigh's boat away, and bid him hasten home.