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Another word for gorge

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Verb

  1. To satisfy to the full or to excess

      1. To feed or supply to excess, satiety, or disgust.
      2. To overindulge.
      3. Overindulgence in food or drink.
      1. To satisfy (an appetite, for example) fully.
      2. To provide (someone) with more than enough; glut.
      3. Filled to satisfaction.
      1. To satisfy (an appetite) fully.
      2. To provide (someone) with more than enough; glut.
      1. A cover for a coffin, bier, or tomb, often made of black, purple, or white velvet.
      2. A coffin, especially one being carried to a grave or tomb.
      3. A covering that darkens or obscures:
      1. To fill beyond capacity, especially with food; satiate:
      2. To flood (a market) with an excess of goods so that supply exceeds demand.
      3. To eat or indulge in something excessively.
      1. To devour greedily.
      2. To gorge; glut.
      3. To fill to excess, as with blood or other fluid.
      1. To cause distaste or disgust by supplying with too much of something originally pleasant, especially something rich or sweet; surfeit.
      2. To be too filling, rich, or sweet.
    See also:

    full

    excess

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Another word for gorge

Noun
      1. A deep fissure, as in a glacier; a chasm.
      2. A crack or breach in a dike or levee.
      3. To develop or cause to develop crevasses.
      1. An immeasurably deep chasm, depth, or void:
      2. In the book of Genesis, the primeval Chaos out of which earth and sky were formed.
      3. The abode of evil spirits; hell.
      1. A narrow chasm with steep cliff walls, cut into the earth by running water; a gorge.
      1. A deep, steep-sided opening in the earth's surface; an abyss or gorge.
      2. A sudden interruption of continuity; a gap.
      3. A pronounced difference of opinion, interests, or loyalty.
    See also:

    ravine

Verb
  1. See also:

    fill

    eat

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Sentence Examples

  • through a deep, narrow gorge with precipitous sides.

  • Up the gorge, there were no climbers tacked to the icy walls.

  • Below the falls the river rushes through a rocky gorge, and openings in the cliffs to the water are rare.

  • The living casemates were under the gorge parapet.

  • The basin is comparatively narrow, and the Tagus, like the other rivers of the Iberian tableland, generally flows in a rather confined valley, often at the bottom of a rocky gorge below the general level of the adjacent country.

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