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[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
gorge \gorge\, v. t. imp.  p. p. gorged; p. pr.  vb. n.
   gorging. f. gorger. see gorge, n.
   1. to swallow; especially, to swallow with greediness, or in
      large mouthfuls or quantities.
      1913 webster

            the fish has gorged the hook.         --johnson.
      1913 webster

   2. to glut; to fill up to the throat; to satiate.
      1913 webster

            the giant gorged with flesh.          --addison.
      1913 webster

            gorge with my blood thy barbarous appetite.
                                                  --dryden.
      1913 webster
see also:
gorged gorging gorge 
[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
gorge \gorge\, n. f. gorge, ll. gorgia, throat, narrow pass,
   and gorga abyss, whirlpool, prob. fr. l. gurgea whirlpool,
   gulf, abyss; cf. skr. gargara whirlpool, g.r to devour. cf.
   gorget.
   1. the throat; the gullet; the canal by which food passes to
      the stomach.
      1913 webster

            wherewith he gripped her gorge with so great pain.
                                                  --spenser.
      1913 webster

            now, how abhorred . . . my gorge rises at it.
                                                  --shak.
      1913 webster

   2. a narrow passage or entrance; as:
      a a defile between mountains.
      b the entrance into a bastion or other outwork of a
          fort; -- usually synonymous with rear. see illust. of
          bastion.
          1913 webster

   3. that which is gorged or swallowed, especially by a hawk or
      other fowl.
      1913 webster

            and all the way, most like a brutish beast,
            e spewed up his gorge, that all did him detest.
                                                  --spenser.
      1913 webster

   4. a filling or choking of a passage or channel by an
      obstruction; as, an ice gorge in a river.
      1913 webster

   5. arch. a concave molding; a cavetto. --gwilt.
      1913 webster

   6. naut. the groove of a pulley.
      1913 webster

   7. angling a primitive device used instead of a fishhook,
      consisting of an object easy to be swallowed but difficult
      to be ejected or loosened, as a piece of bone or stone
      pointed at each end and attached in the middle to a line.
      webster 1913 suppl.

   gorge circle gearing, the outline of the smallest cross
      section of a hyperboloid of revolution.

   circle of the gorge math., a minimum circle on a surface
      of revolution, cut out by a plane perpendicular to the
      axis.

   gorge fishing, trolling with a dead bait on a double hook
      which the fish is given time to swallow, or gorge.

   gorge hook, two fishhooks, separated by a piece of lead.
      --knight.
      1913 webster + webster 1913 suppl.
see also:
gorget bastion gorge circle circle of the gorge gorge fishing gorge hook 

[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
gorge \gorge\, v. i.
   to eat greedily and to satiety. --milton.
   1913 webster

[4] : WordNet (r) 2.0
gorge
     n 1: a deep ravine usually with a river running through it
     2: a narrow pass especially one between mountains syn: defile
     3: the passage between the pharynx and the stomach syn: esophagus,
         oesophagus, gullet
     v : overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself; "she
         stuffed herself at the dinner"; "the kids binged on
         icecream" syn: ingurgitate, overindulge, glut, englut,
          stuff, engorge, overgorge, overeat, gormandize,
          gormandise, gourmandize, binge, pig out, satiate,
          scarf out
see also:
defile esophagus oesophagus gullet ingurgitate overindulge 
glut englut stuff engorge overgorge 
overeat gormandize gormandise gourmandize binge 
pig out satiate scarf out 
[5] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
171 moby thesaurus words for "gorge":
   abysm, abyss, allay, arroyo, bar, barrier, batten, blank wall,
   blind alley, blind gut, block, blockade, blockage, bolt, bolt down,
   bottleneck, box canyon, breach, break, canyon, cavity, cecum, chap,
   chasm, check, chimney, chink, choke, choking, choking off, cleft,
   cleuch, clog, clough, clove, cloy, col, congest, congestion,
   constipation, costiveness, coulee, couloir, crack, cram, cranny,
   crevasse, crevice, crowd, cul-de-sac, cut, cwm, dead end, defile,
   dell, devour, dike, ditch, donga, draw, drench, embolism, embolus,
   engorge, esophagus, excavation, fauces, fault, fill, fill up,
   fissure, flaw, flume, fracture, furrow, gap, gape, gash, gill,
   glut, gluttonize, gobble, goozle, gormandize, groove, gulch, gulf,
   gullet, gully, gulp, gulp down, guttle, guzzle, hals, hole,
   impasse, impediment, incision, infarct, infarction, jade, jam,
   jam-pack, joint, kloof, leak, live to eat, moat, notch, nullah,
   obstacle, obstipation, obstruction, opening, overburden,
   overcharge, overdose, overeat, overfeed, overfill, overgorge,
   overindulge, overlade, overload, oversaturate, overstuff,
   overweight, pack, pall, pass, passage, pharynx, raven, ravine,
   rent, rift, rime, rupture, sate, satiate, satisfy, saturate,
   scissure, sealing off, seam, slake, slit, slot, soak, split, stall,
   stodge, stop, stoppage, strangulation, stuff, supercharge,
   supersaturate, surcharge, surfeit, swallow, throat, trench, valley,
   void, vomit, wadi, weasand, wizen, wolf, wolf down





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