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gorge

(gôrj)

1. A deep narrow valley with steep rocky sides; a ravine.

2. A narrow entrance into the outwork of a fortification.

3. The throat; the gullet: The gory sight made my gorge rise.

4. The crop of a hawk.

5. An instance of gluttonous eating.

6. The contents of the stomach; something swallowed.

7. A mass obstructing a narrow passage: a shipping lane blocked by an ice gorge.

8. The seam on the front of a coat or jacket where the lapel and the collar are joined.

v. gorged, gorg·ing, gorg·es

v.tr.

1. To stuff with food; glut: gorged themselves with candy.

2. To devour greedily.

v.intr.

To eat gluttonously.

[Middle English, throat, from Old French, from Late Latin gurga, perhaps from Latin gurges, whirlpool, abyss.]

gorg′er n.

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gorge

(ɡɔːdʒ)

1. (Physical Geography) a deep ravine, esp one through which a river runs

2. (Anatomy) the contents of the stomach

3. feelings of disgust or resentment (esp in the phrase one's gorge rises)

4. an obstructing mass: an ice gorge.

5. (Fortifications) fortifications

a. a narrow rear entrance to a work

b. the narrow part of a bastion or outwork

6. (Anatomy) archaic the throat or gullet

7. (Falconry) (intr) falconry (of hawks) to eat until the crop is completely full

8. to swallow (food) ravenously

9. (tr) to stuff (oneself) with food

[C14: from Old French gorger to stuff, from gorge throat, from Late Latin gurga, modification of Latin gurges whirlpool]

ˈgorgeable adj

ˈgorger n

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gorge

(gɔrdʒ)

n., v. gorged, gorg•ing. n.

1. a narrow cleft with steep, rocky walls, esp. 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: an ice gorge.

6. the seam where the lapel joins the collar of a coat.

7. the rear part of a bastion or similar outwork of a fortification.

8. a primitive type of fishhook consisting of a sharply pointed piece of bone, antler, etc., that is attached to a line and lodges in a fish's gills when swallowed.

9. the throat; gullet.

10. a feeling of strong disgust or anger: Their cruelty made his gorge rise.

v.t.

11. to stuff with food: to gorge oneself.

12. to swallow, esp. greedily.

13. to fill or choke up.

v.i.

14. to eat greedily.

[1325–75;< Old French gorger, derivative of gorge throat « Latin gurguliō gullet, gurges whirlpool, eddy]

gorg′er, n.

gorge

(gôrj)

A deep, narrow passage with steep sides, often with a stream flowing through it.

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gorge

Past participle: gorged
Gerund: gorging

Imperative
gorge
gorge

Present
I gorge
you gorge
he/she/it gorges
we gorge
you gorge
they gorge

Preterite
I gorged
you gorged
he/she/it gorged
we gorged
you gorged
they gorged

Present Continuous
I am gorging
you are gorging
he/she/it is gorging
we are gorging
you are gorging
they are gorging

Present Perfect
I have gorged
you have gorged
he/she/it has gorged
we have gorged
you have gorged
they have gorged

Past Continuous
I was gorging
you were gorging
he/she/it was gorging
we were gorging
you were gorging
they were gorging

Past Perfect
I had gorged
you had gorged
he/she/it had gorged
we had gorged
you had gorged
they had gorged

Future
I will gorge
you will gorge
he/she/it will gorge
we will gorge
you will gorge
they will gorge

Future Perfect
I will have gorged
you will have gorged
he/she/it will have gorged
we will have gorged
you will have gorged
they will have gorged

Future Continuous
I will be gorging
you will be gorging
he/she/it will be gorging
we will be gorging
you will be gorging
they will be gorging

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been gorging
you have been gorging
he/she/it has been gorging
we have been gorging
you have been gorging
they have been gorging

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been gorging
you will have been gorging
he/she/it will have been gorging
we will have been gorging
you will have been gorging
they will have been gorging

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been gorging
you had been gorging
he/she/it had been gorging
we had been gorging
you had been gorging
they had been gorging

Conditional
I would gorge
you would gorge
he/she/it would gorge
we would gorge
you would gorge
they would gorge

Past Conditional
I would have gorged
you would have gorged
he/she/it would have gorged
we would have gorged
you would have gorged
they would have gorged

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gorge

A deep, narrow, steep-sided valley, formed where a river erodes the floor far faster than the sides.

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Noun	1.	gorge - a deep ravine (usually with a river running through it) flume, gulch - a narrow gorge with a stream running through it ravine - a deep narrow steep-sided valley (especially one formed by running water)
	2.	gorge - a narrow pass (especially one between mountains) defile mountain pass, notch, pass - the location in a range of mountains of a geological formation that is lower than the surrounding peaks; "we got through the pass before it started to snow"
	3.	gorge - the passage between the pharynx and the stomach esophagus, gullet, oesophagus passageway, passage - a path or channel or duct through or along which something may pass; "the nasal passages" muscle system, muscular structure, musculature - the muscular system of an organism alimentary canal, alimentary tract, digestive tract, digestive tube, gastrointestinal tract, GI tract - tubular passage of mucous membrane and muscle extending about 8.3 meters from mouth to anus; functions in digestion and elimination epicardia - the short part of the esophagus extending downward from the diaphragm to the stomach cardiac sphincter - the valve between the distal end of the esophagus and the stomach; the physiological sphincter at the esophagogastric junction
Verb	1.	gorge - overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself; "She stuffed herself at the dinner"; "The kids binged on ice cream" binge, englut, engorge, glut, gormandise, gormandize, gourmandize, ingurgitate, overeat, overgorge, overindulge, pig out, scarf out, satiate, stuff eat - eat a meal; take a meal; "We did not eat until 10 P.M. because there were so many phone calls"; "I didn't eat yet, so I gladly accept your invitation"

gorge

noun

1. ravine, canyon, pass, clough (dialect), chasm, cleft, fissure, defile, gulch a steep path into Crete's Samaria Gorge

verb

1. overeat, bolt, devour, gobble, wolf, swallow, gulp, guzzle, pig out (slang) I could spend all day gorging on chocolate.

2. (usually reflexive) stuff, fill, feed, cram, glut, surfeit, satiate, sate Three men were gorging themselves on grouse and watermelon.

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gorge

verb

To satisfy to the full or to excess:

cloy, engorge, glut, pall, sate, satiate, surfeit.

Translations

مَضيق بين جَبَلَينيأكُل بِنَهَم وشراهَه

roklenacpat se

kløft

Schlucht vollstopfen Felsschlucht fressen

φαράγγι

ahmiahotkiakuilukurkkukuru

gorge gorger de

bezabálszurdok

gljúfurháma í sig

forra gola rimpinzare rimpinzarsi anfratto

apsirytiprisiryti

aizapierīties

kloof

proppe i seg stappe i seg

gardło jar wąwóz

garganta gorja

pass

sarp vaditıka basa yemek

塞饱峡谷拼命吃

gorge

[gɔːdʒ]

A. N

1. (Geog) → cañón m, barranco m

2. (Anat) → garganta f
my gorge rises at it → me da asco

B. VT to gorge o.s → atracarse (with, on de)

C. VI → atracarse (on de)

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gorge

[ˈgɔː^rdʒ]

n → gorge f

vt
to gorge o.s. → se gaver
to gorge o.s. on sth → se gaver de qch

gorge

(Geog) → Schlucht f

(old: = gullet) → Schlund m; it stuck in my gorge to … (fig) → es war mir zuwider, zu …; it makes my gorge rise (fig: = makes me angry) → dabei kommt mir die Galle hoch

vr → schlemmen, sich vollessen; (animal) → gierig fressen, schlingen; to gorge (oneself) on something (also fig) → etw in sich (acc) → hineinschlingen, etw verschlingen

vt they were gorged → sie hatten sich reichlich gesättigt (→ on an +dat); (animals) → sie hatten sich vollgefressen (→ on an +dat)

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gorge

[gɔːdʒ]

1. n (Geog, Anat) → gola

2. vt to gorge o.s. (with or on) → rimpinzarsi (di), ingozzarsi (di)

gorge

(goːdʒ) noun

a deep narrow valley. A river ran along the bottom of the gorge.

verb

to eat greedily until one is full. He gorged himself on fruit at the party.

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Heidelberg lies at the mouth of a narrow gorge--a gorge the shape of a shepherd's crook; if one looks up it he perceives that it is about straight, for a mile and a half, then makes a sharp curve to the right and disappears.

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The prahu was gliding through a stretch of comparatively quiet and placid water where the stream spread out into a little basin just above a narrow gorge through which they had just forced their way by dint of the most laborious exertions on the part of the crew.

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It was a toilsome march over broken ground and through snow, which came often as high as the knee, yet ere the sun had begun to sink they had reached the spot where the gorge opens out on to the uplands of Navarre, and could see the towers of Pampeluna jutting up against the southern sky-line.

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The party enters the mountain gorge A wild fastness among hills Mountain mutton Peace and plenty The amorous trapper-A piebald wedding-A free trapper's wife-Her gala equipments- Christmas in the wilderness.

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The afternoon had been dull and cloudy and now as he was passing through a narrow gorge a few great drops of rain began to splatter upon his naked shoulders.

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Accordingly we now commenced it by descending the almost perpendicular side of a steep and narrow gorge, bristling with a thick growth of reeds.

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"Never mind," he answered; and, slinging his weapon over his shoulder, strode off down the gorge and so away into the heart of the mountains to the haunts of the wild beasts.

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Mitchell, [4] endeavoured in vain, first walking and then by crawling between the great fallen fragments of sandstone, to ascend through the gorge by which the river Grose joins the Nepean, yet the valley of the Grose in its upper part, as I saw, forms a magnificent level basin some miles in width, and is on all sides surrounded by cliffs, the summits of which are believed to be nowhere less than 3000 feet above the level of the sea.

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The outlet, or the Susquehanna, flows through a gorge in the low banks just mentioned, which may have a width of two hundred feet.

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I had passed through a narrow, overhanging gorge just before entering suddenly upon this table land, and the sight which met my eyes filled me with consternation and dismay.

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And there is a Catskill eagle in some souls that can alike dive down into the blackest gorges, and soar out of them again and become invisible in the sunny spaces.

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After an hour's rest they advanced again along the canon, until they presently came to a little valley, from which several rocky gorges diverged.