Gorge

Quick meaning: Gorge is a noun meaning (botany) The throat of a flower.

Meaning

(botany) The throat of a flower.

More Meanings

1. Food that has been taken into the gullet or the stomach, particularly if it is regurgitated or vomited out.
2. (US) A choking or filling of a channel or passage by an obstruction; the obstruction itself.
3. (architecture) A concave moulding; a cavetto.
4. (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.
5. (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.
6. (archaic) The front aspect of the neck; the outside of the throat.
7. (archaic, literary) The inside of the throat; the esophagus, the gullet; (falconry, specifically) the crop or gizzard of a hawk.

Example Sentences

My gorge rises at the sight of it.

Gleam, a term uſed after a hawk hath caſt and gleameth, or throweth up filth from her gorge.

Now her worries about Charles Wallace and her disappointment in her father’s human fallibility rose like gorge in her throat.

Then as it [a giant serpent] opened its gorge with a gasp, Darra his son made a running bound, And keeping his sharp skian firm in his grasp, Dived headlong into its throat profound.

Word Forms

• gorges
• gorging
• gorged
• gorg

Synonyms for gorge

Depending on context, synonyms include canyon, gurge, sate, stuff, engorge, defile.

Antonyms for gorge

Common opposites include munch, nibble.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include gullet, englut, ingurgitate, engorge, pig out, gourmandize.

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