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Gorge

noun

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

A narrow pass (especially one between mountains). Synonym: defile.

The passage between the pharynx and the stomach. Synonyms: esophagus, gullet, oesophagus.

verb

(past & past part. gorged; pres. part. gorging)

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. "The kids binged on ice cream"

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"Gorge" Quotes from Famous Books

... betters!—a bit of rest in your old age, a home that's something better than a dog-hole, a wage that's something better than starvation, an honest share in the wealth you are making every day and every hour for other people to gorge and plunder!" ...

— Marcella • Mrs. Humphry Ward

... political and military affairs of the Romans seem to be derived from poets and poetasters. Spots made memorable by events which have changed the destinies of the world, and which have been worthily recorded by great historians, bring to his mind only scraps of some ancient versifier. In the gorge of the Apennines he naturally remembers the hardships which Hannibal's army endured, and proceeds to cite, not the authentic narrative of Polybius, not the picturesque narrative of Livy, but the languid hexameters ...

— Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3) • Thomas Babington Macaulay

... permit of a good view, he climbed to the crest of a high dune and looked out over the desert. As far as he could see no living thing moved; so he drove the pack train out of the swale and headed for the gorge between the hills. The thirsty burros broke into a run, hee-hawing with joy as they sniffed the water, and within a few minutes man and beasts were drinking in ...

— The Long Chance • Peter B. Kyne

... was too deeply intent on his next move to be embarrassed by his lack of clothes. Not in vain had his gorge risen almost at first sight of this man. He stepped quickly in front of Monsieur Chatelard, blocking his exit up the ladder, while the revolver in his hand looked ...

— The Stolen Singer • Martha Idell Fletcher Bellinger

... occasion to mention this castle. It is the remains of what was once a Norman stronghold, and is perched upon a round mound or monticle, in the midst of the old city. Steep is this mound and scarped, evidently by the hand of man; a deep gorge, over which is flung a bridge, separates it, on the south, from a broad swell of open ground called "the hill;" of old the scene of many a tournament and feat of Norman chivalry, but now much used as a show-place for cattle, where those who buy and sell ...

— Lavengro - The Scholar, The Gypsy, The Priest • George Borrow

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