GORGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does gorge mean? 

• GORGE (noun)
  The noun GORGE has 3 senses:

1. a deep ravine (usually with a river running through it)

2. a narrow pass (especially one between mountains)

3. the passage between the pharynx and the stomach

  Familiarity information: GORGE used as a noun is uncommon.

• GORGE (verb)
  The verb GORGE has 1 sense:

1. overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself

  Familiarity information: GORGE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GORGE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A deep ravine (usually with a river running through it)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Hypernyms ("gorge" is a kind of...):

ravine (a deep narrow steep-sided valley (especially one formed by running water))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "gorge"):

flume; gulch (a narrow gorge with a stream running through it)

Instance hyponyms:

Cataract Canyon (a tributary of the Grand Canyon)

Grand Canyon (the enormous gorge of the Colorado River in northern Arizona)

Olduvai Gorge (a gorge in northeastern Tanzania where anthropologists have found some of the earliest human remains)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A narrow pass (especially one between mountains)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

defile; gorge

Hypernyms ("gorge" is a kind of...):

mountain pass; notch; pass (the location in a range of mountains of a geological formation that is lower than the surrounding peaks)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The passage between the pharynx and the stomach

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

esophagus; gorge; gullet; oesophagus

Hypernyms ("gorge" is a kind of...):

passage; passageway (a path or channel or duct through or along which something may pass)

muscle system; muscular structure; musculature (the muscular system of an organism)

Meronyms (parts of "gorge"):

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)

Holonyms ("gorge" is a part of...):

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)

• GORGE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they gorge    ... he / she / it gorges   
Past simple: gorged   
Past participle: gorged   
-ing form: gorging   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself

Classified under:

Verbs of eating and drinking

Synonyms:

binge; englut; engorge; glut; gorge; gormandise; gormandize; gourmandize; ingurgitate; overeat; overgorge; overindulge; pig out; satiate; scarf out; stuff

Context example:

The kids binged on ice cream

Hypernyms (to "gorge" is one way to...):

eat (eat a meal; take a meal)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s PP

Derivation:

gorger (someone who eats food rapidly and greedily)

 Context examples 

With a cry of terror, he thrust his spurs into his horse's sides and dashed for the narrow opening of the gorge.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Here and there are silver threads where the rivers wind in deep gorges through the forests.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

These black holes gorge on surrounding gas material that fuels their growth.

(NASA's WISE findings poke hole in black hole 'Doughnut' theory, NASA)

Interestingly NPGL levels, which plummeted in the 5-week-long high-fat-diet mice — fell back to normal levels in mice who gorged themselves for the longer period of 13 weeks.

(New Appetite Control Mechanism Found in Brain, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

He was even gorged from his latest kill.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

His heavy face was gorged and the veins stood out on his low forehead, while his fierce grey eyes looked viciously from man to man in quest of a quarrel.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I, wealthy—gorged with gold I never earned and do not merit!

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

We ordered the camp to be pitched, however, and, leaving the Indians to arrange it, we four, with the two half-breeds, proceeded up the narrow gorge.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The brilliant galaxy, known as WISE J224607.57-052635.0, may have a behemoth black hole at its belly, gorging itself on gas.

(The Most Luminous Galaxy in Universe, NASA)

She looked at him on every side and saw that something was moving and struggling in his gorged belly.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)