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gorge

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1. gorge - Noun

2. gorge - Adjective

3. gorge - Verb

4. Gorge - Proper noun

Meaning

The throat; the gullet; the canal by which food passes to the stomach.

A narrow passage or entrance

A defile between mountains.

The entrance into a bastion or other outwork of a fort; -- usually synonymous with rear. See Illust. of Bastion.

That which is gorged or swallowed, especially by a hawk or other fowl.

A filling or choking of a passage or channel by an obstruction; as, an ice gorge in a river.

A concave molding; a cavetto.

The groove of a pulley.

To swallow; especially, to swallow with greediness, or in large mouthfuls or quantities.

To glut; to fill up to the throat; to satiate.

To eat greedily and to satiety.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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The people in our country and in America and in all West European countries, they have to gorge and guzzle so that they don't even start to think about the fact that we have something to do with Vietnam or what it might be about, OK? Gudrun Ensslin

Do you want to talk to me? Or what do you want to do with me? Watch my eating techniques here? How I gorge the chicken? How I eat like a barracuda? Mike Tyson

Where the eagle glides ascending There's an ancient river bending Through the timeless gorge of changes Where sleeplessness awaits. Neil Young

I think the main reason is that people binge watch because they can. We're like dogs, really. If we like something, we tend to gorge ourselves on it until there's no more left. And as bingeing becomes possible and commonplace, it's only natural that shows should start to take it into account. D. B. Weiss

Froi heard Zabat's voice echo over and over again throughout the gorge. Wonderful. The gods had found a way of multiplying the idiot's voice. Melina Marchetta

Which cat does not gorge a mouse? Chinese Proverb

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