Definition of GORGE

gorge

Plural: gorges

Noun

  • a deep ravine (usually with a river running through it)
  • a narrow pass (especially one between mountains)
  • the passage between the pharynx and the stomach
  • The front aspect of the neck; the outside of the throat.
  • The inside of the throat; the esophagus, the gullet; (falconry, specifically) the crop or gizzard of a hawk.
  • The throat of a flower.
  • Food that has been taken into the gullet or the stomach, particularly if it is regurgitated or vomited out.
  • A choking or filling of a channel or passage by an obstruction; the obstruction itself.
  • A concave moulding; a cavetto.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • A deep, narrow passage with steep, rocky sides, particularly one with a stream running through it; a ravine.
  • The groove of a pulley.
  • A whirlpool used as a heraldic charge.
  • An act of gorging.

Verb

Verb Forms: gorged, gorging, gorges

  • To eat a large amount of food quickly and greedily.
  • overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself
  • To stuff the gorge or gullet with food; to eat greedily and in large quantities.
  • To swallow, especially with greediness, or in large mouthfuls or quantities.
  • To fill up to the throat; to glut, to satiate.
  • 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.

Adj

  • Gorgeous.

Examples

  • After a long Scrabble marathon, players often gorge on snacks.
  • an ice gorge in a river
  • My gorge rises at the sight of it.
  • Oh, look at him: isn’t he gorge?
  • They gorged themselves on chocolate and cake.

Origin / Etymology

From Middle English gorge (“esophagus, gullet; throat; bird's crop; food in a hawk's crop; food or drink that has been eaten”), a borrowing from Old French gorge (“throat”) (modern French gorge (“throat; breast”)), from Vulgar Latin *gorga, *gurga, from Latin gurges (“eddy, whirlpool; gulf; sea”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *gʷerh₃- (“to devour, swallow; to eat”). The English word is cognate with Galician gorxa (“throat”), Italian gorga, gorgia (“gorge, ravine; (obsolete) throat”), Occitan gorga, gorja, Portuguese gorja (“gullet, throat; gorge”), Spanish gorja (“gullet, throat; gorge”). Doublet of gour.

Scrabble Score: 7

gorge: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
gorge: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
gorge: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 9

gorge: valid Words With Friends Word