gorge Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a deep ravine (usually with a river running through it)
  2. noun a narrow pass (especially one between mountains)
    defile.
  3. noun the passage between the pharynx and the stomach
    esophagus; oesophagus; gullet.
  4. verb overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself
    engorge; gormandize; gormandise; overgorge; glut; overeat; satiate; englut; stuff; ingurgitate; overindulge; scarf out; gourmandize; binge; pig out.
    • She stuffed herself at the dinner
    • The kids binged on ice cream

WordNet

Gorge noun
Etymology
F. gorge, LL. gorgia, throat, narrow pass, and gorga abyss, whirlpool, prob. fr. L. gurgea whirlpool, gulf, abyss; cf. Skr. gargara whirlpool, gr to devour. Cf. Gorget.
Definitions
  1. The throat; the gullet; the canal by which food passes to the stomach.
    Wherewith he gripped her gorge with so great pain. Spenser.
    Now, how abhorred! . . . my gorge rises at it. Shak.
  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.
  3. That which is gorged or swallowed, especially by a hawk or other fowl.
    And all the way, most like a brutish beast,He spewed up his gorge, that all did him detest. Spenser.
  4. A filling or choking of a passage or channel by an obstruction; as, an ice gorge in a river.
  5. (Arch.) A concave molding; a cavetto. Gwilt.
  6. (Naut.) The groove of a pulley.
Gorge transitive verb
Etymology
F. gorger. See Gorge, n.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Gorged ; present participle & verbal noun Gorging
Definitions
  1. To swallow; especially, to swallow with greediness, or in large mouthfuls or quantities.
    The fish has gorged the hook. Johnson.
  2. To glut; to fill up to the throat; to satiate.
    The giant gorged with flesh. Addison.
    Gorge with my blood thy barbarous appetite. Dryden.
Gorge intransitive verb
Definitions
  1. To eat greedily and to satiety. Milton.

Webster 1913