Definitions for gorge

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gorge gorge

Spelling: [gawrj]

IPA: /gɔrdʒ/

Gorge is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 40 anagrams from letters in gorge (eggor).

Definitions for gorge

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 gorge

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 gorge

All of which means banks and companies will be able to gorge on cheap short-term money for another year or two.

The gorge has always been a hotbed of radicalism and arms smuggling, but now it is fast becoming a shahid factory.

The scenery before the gorge of the river is reached is gloomy, but grand.

And in the late afternoon, be sure to take a short hike to see the sun begin to set in the gorge.

The bottom of the gorge was leveled off with infinite labor.

The town owes its unusual geography to the Rio Trejo, which eroded the gorge that the town is built in.

The next instant he dropped lightly to the floor of the gorge.

To all this Robin listened, and as he listened his gorge rose.

The bottom of the gorge had all the appearance of a wartime camp.

The gorge Amphitheatre plays host to the 3-day festival Sasquatch on the west coast in Washington.