Definition of "gorge" in English

noun

1. (archaic) The front aspect of the neck; the outside of the throat.

2. (archaic, literary) The inside of the throat; the esophagus, the gullet; (falconry, specifically) the crop or gizzard of a hawk.

3. (botany) The throat of a flower.

4. 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. (US) A choking or filling of a channel or passage by an obstruction; the obstruction itself.

   • an ice gorge in a river

6. (architecture) A concave moulding; a cavetto.

7. (architecture, military, fortification) 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. (fishing) 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.

9. (geography) A deep, narrow passage with steep, rocky sides, particularly one with a stream running through it; a ravine.

10. (mechanical engineering) The groove of a pulley.

11. (heraldry, usually in the plural) A whirlpool used as a heraldic charge.

verb

1. (intransitive, reflexive) To stuff the gorge or gullet with food; to eat greedily and in large quantities. [with on]

   • They gorged themselves on chocolate and cake.

2. (transitive) To swallow, especially with greediness, or in large mouthfuls or quantities.

3. (transitive) To fill up to the throat; to glut, to satiate.

4. (transitive) To fill up (an organ, a vein, etc.); to block up or obstruct; (US, specifically) of ice: to choke or fill a channel or passage, causing an obstruction.

noun

1. An act of gorging.

adjective

1. (slang) Gorgeous.

   • Oh, look at him: isn’t he gorge?