gorge as a noun: - 1
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as a verb: - 1
gorge
noun
1 gorge
A deep ravine (usually with a river running through it).
Roget 957:
gluttony;
greed,
avarice;
greediness
etc.
adj.;
voracity.
epicurism;
good living,
high living;
edacity†,
gulosity†,
crapulence†;
guttling†,
guzzling;
pantophagy†.
good cheer,
blow out;
feast
etc.
(food)
298;
gastronomy,
batterie de cuisine [Fr.].
epicure,
bon vivant,
gourmand;
glutton,
cormorant,
hog,
belly god,
Apicius†,
gastronome;
gourmet
etc.
954.1,
868.
v..
gormandize,
gorge;
overgorge†,
overeat oneself;
engorge,
eat one's fill,
cram,
stuff;
guttle†,
guzzle;
bolt,
devour,
gobble up;
gulp
etc.
(swallow food)
298;
raven,
eat out of house and home.
have the stomach of an ostrich;
play a good knife and fork
etc.
(appetite)
865.
pamper.
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Dutch: kloof
2 gorge
A narrow pass (especially one between mountains).
synonym: defile.
Roget 198:
interval,
interspace†;
separation
etc.
44;
break,
gap,
opening;
hole
etc.
260;
chasm,
hiatus,
caesura;
interruption,
interregnum;
interstice,
lacuna,
cleft,
mesh,
crevice,
chink,
rime,
creek,
cranny,
crack,
chap,
slit,
fissure,
scissure†,
rift,
flaw,
breach,
rent,
gash,
cut,
leak,
dike,
ha-ha.
gorge,
defile,
ravine,
canon,
crevasse,
abyss,
abysm;
gulf;
inlet,
frith†,
strait,
gully;
pass;
furrow
etc.
259;
abra†;
barranca†,
barranco†;
clove [U.S.],
gulch [U.S.],
notch [U.S.];
yawning gulf;
hiatus maxime [Lat.],
hiatus valde deflendus [Lat.];
parenthesis
etc.
(interjacence)
228†;
void
etc.
(absence)
187;
incompleteness
etc.
53.
[interval of time]
period
etc.
108;
interim
(time)
106.
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Dutch: col
Polish: gardziel, przesmyk
3 gorge
verb
1 gorge
Overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself.
synonyms: binge, englut, engorge, glut, gormandise, gormandize, gourmandize, ingurgitate, overeat, overgorge, overindulge, pig out, satiate, scarf out, stuff ... show more.
Roget 641:
superabound,
overabound†;
know no bounds,
swarm;
meet one at every turn;
creep with,
crawl with,
bristle with;
overflow;
run over,
flow over,
well over,
brim over;
run riot;
overrun,
overstock,
overlay,
overcharge,
overdose,
overfeed,
overburden,
overload,
overdo,
overwhelm,
overshoot the mark
etc.
(go beyond)
303;
surcharge,
supersaturate,
gorge,
glut,
load,
drench,
whelm,
inundate,
deluge,
flood;
drug,
drug the market;
hepatize†.
choke,
cloy,
accloy†,
suffocate;
pile up,
lay on thick;
impregnate with;
lavish
etc.
(squander)
818.
send coals to Newcastle,
carry coals to Newcastle,
carry owls to Athens†;
teach one's grandmother to suck eggs;
pisces natare docere [Lat.];
kill the slain,
gild refined gold,"
gild the lily,"
butter one's bread on both sides,
put butter upon bacon;
employ a steam engine to crack a nut
etc.
(waste)
638.
exaggerate
etc.
549;
wallow in
roll in
etc.
(plenty)
639;
remain on one's hands,
hang heavy on hand,
go a begging.
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Roget 869:
sate,
satiate,
satisfy,
saturate;
cloy,
quench,
slake,
pall,
glut. ,
gorge,
surfeit;
bore
etc.
(weary)
841;
tire
etc.
(fatigue)
688;
spoil.
have enough of,
have quite enough of,
have one's fill,
have too much of;
be satiated
etc.
adj..
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Dutch: te veel eten, toegeeflijk, schrokken, overeten, brassen, schransen
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