EGAVE

gorge

About 2.05 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun The front aspect of the neck; the outside of the throat.
  2. noun The inside of the throat; the esophagus, the gullet; the crop or gizzard of a hawk.
  3. noun The throat of a flower.
  4. noun Food that has been taken into the gullet or the stomach, particularly if it is regurgitated or vomited out.
    My gorge rises at the sight of it.
  5. noun A choking or filling of a channel or passage by an obstruction; the obstruction itself.
    an ice gorge in a river
  6. noun A concave moulding; a cavetto.
  7. noun The rearward side of an outwork, a bastion, or a fort, often open, or not protected against artillery; a narrow entry passage into the outwork of an enclosed fortification.
  8. noun A primitive device used instead of a hook to catch fish, consisting of an object that is easy to swallow but difficult to eject or loosen, such as a piece of bone or stone pointed at each end and attached in the middle to a line.

Similar words

gullet englut ingurgitate engorge pig out gourmandize gormandize gormandise overgorge stuff

Often followed by

of and in is on to themselves at was

Word family

gorged gorger gorgers gorges gorging

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