Gorge

Definition: Gorge

Gorge

Noun

1. A deep ravine (usually with a river running through it).

2. A narrow pass (especially one between mountains).

3. The passage between the pharynx and the stomach.

Verb

1. Overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "gorge" was first used: 1185. (references)

Etymology: Gorge \Gorge\, noun. [French gorge, Late Latin gorgia, throat, narrow pass, and gorga abyss, whirlpool, probably from Latin gurgea whirlpool, gulf, abyss; compare to Sanskrit gargara whirlpool, g[.r] to devour. Compare to Gorget.]. (references)

Food & Agriculture

Military

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Gorge

Gluttony

Verb: gormandize, gorge; overgorge, overeat oneself; engorge, eat one's fill, cram, stuff; guttle, guzzle; bolt, devour, gobble up; gulp; (swallow food); raven, eat out of house and home.

Interval

Gorge, defile, ravine, canon, crevasse, abyss, abysm; gulf; inlet, frith, strait, gully; pass; furrow; abra; barranca, barranco; clove, gulch, notch; yawning gulf; hiatus maxime, hiatus valde deflendus; parenthesis; (interjacence); void c. (absence); incompleteness.

Redundancy

Verb: superabound, overabound; know no bounds, swarm; meet one at every turn; creep with, crawl with, bristle with; overflow; run over, flow over, well over, brim over; run riot; overrun, overstock, overlay, overcharge, overdose, overfeed, overburden, overload, overdo, overwhelm, overshoot the mark; (go beyond); surcharge, supersaturate, gorge, glut, load, drench, whelm, inundate, deluge, flood; drug, drug the market; hepatize.

Resentment

Put out of countenance, put out of humor; put one's monkey up, put one's back up; raise one's gorge, raise one's dander, raise one's choler; work up into a passion; make one's blood boil, make the ears tingle; throw, into a ferment, madden, drive one mad; lash into fury, lash into madness; fool to the top of one's bent; set by the ears.

Phrase: one's blood being up, one's back being up, one's monkey being up; fervens difficili bile jecur; the gorge rising, eyes flashing fire; the blood rising, the blood boiling; haeret lateri lethalis arundo; " beware the fury of a patient man "; furor arma ministrat; ira furor brevis est; quem Jupiter vult perdere dementat prius; "What, drunk with choler? ".

Satiety

Verb: sate, satiate, satisfy, saturate; cloy, quench, slake, pall, glut., gorge, surfeit; bore; (weary); tire; (fatigue); spoil.

Willingness

Swallow the bait, nibble at the bait; gorge the hook; have no scruple of, make no scruple of; make no bones of; jump at, catch at; meet halfway; volunteer.

Crosswords: Gorge

French (Canyon, crag, fauces, gorge, groove, throat, throttle).

When he swallowed my gorge rose (Bitteren Tränen der Petra von Kant, Die; writing credit: Rainer Werner Fassbinder)

The Gorge (1968)

Le Couteau sous la gorge (1955)

At Devil's Gorge (1923)

The Spirit of the Gorge (1911)

Great Gorge Route Over Lewiston Bridge Panorama (1901)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• A Naturalist's Guide to the Southern Blue Ridge Front : Linville Gorge, North Carolina, to Talluah Gorge, Georgia (reference)

• Columbia River Gorge (reference)

• New River Gorge and Summersville Lake Rock Climbers' Guidebook (reference)

• Owens River Gorge Climbs (reference)

• The Niagara Gorge Belt Line : A Pictorial History (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Gorge Guide (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Steaming Up the New River Gorge (reference)

• Tennessee Pass & the Royal Gorge Route (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Suite for the Columbia Gorge (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Team members from the Air Combat Command Communications Group at Langley Air Force Base, Va., trek up a steep hill during a 6.2-mile forced march to kick off the inaugural Wilderness Challenge 2000 competition near the New River Gorge National River in We.

Waterfall along the Columbia Gorge. Credit: Sara Wilson.

Classic glacial valley in Kiger Gorge, Steens Mountain, Oregon. Credit: Mark Armstrong.

Secretary Babbitt (left) and Governor Kitzhaber (right) at Big Indian Gorge on the Steens. Credit: Mark Armstrong & Chris Strebig.

(L - R) Stacie Davies, Governor John Kitzhaber, and Secretary Babbitt at Big Indian Gorge on Steens Mountain. Credit: Mark Armstrong & Chris Strebig.

Little Blitzen Gorge and river near hiking access. OR 2-86F. Credit: Unknown.

Looking up Big Indian Gorge. Credit: Unknown.

The High Steens Wilderness Study Area, inside by Indian Canyon near the headwaters of the gorge. OR 2-85F. Credit: Harmon.

Aerial picture of Blitzen Gorge and the Blitzen River. OR 2-86E. Credit: Harmon.

Noatak Gorge. Credit: Alaska Historical Image Library.

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Cape becomes bar, and plain shoal, and valley and gorge deep water and channel

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Economic History

Tanzania

Tanzania is associated to the birth of humanity following the discovery of some of the oldest human remains in Olduvai Gorge. (references)

Georgia

Several thousand Chechen refugees have moved into Georgia's Pankisi Gorge, adding to the refugee/internally displaced population. (references)

Georgia

There has been an influx of refugees from Chechnya into the Pankisi Gorge in Georgia, where the local Kist population is ethnically close to the Chechens. (references)

Human Rights

Russia

The antiterrorist operation was marked by several large-scale clashes during the summer, most noticeably in the Argun gorge and the Vedeno district, and by several rebel attacks on population centers, such as a September 17 attack on Gudermes. (references)

Political Economy

Georgia

Currently, the pressure is for joint Russian-Georgian operations in the Pankisi Gorge, where Chechen refugees are housed and some Chechen fighters may be hiding. (references)

Travel

Georgia

Travel is also discouraged to the Pankisi Gorge north of and including Akhmeta. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "gorge": cast the gorge at ♦ Circle of the gorge ♦ Gorge circle ♦ Gorge fishing ♦ Gorge hook ♦ gorge of a mount ♦ gorge oneself ♦ gorge with smth. ♦ Grand Gorge ♦ ice gorge ♦ it makes his gorge rise ♦ make his gorge rise ♦ make one's gorge rise ♦ make smb.'s gorge rise ♦ my gorge rose ♦ new River Gorge Bridge ♦ Olduvai Gorge ♦ stir the gorge. Additional references.

Beginning with "gorge": gorge-like, gorge-ous.

Ending with "gorge": Coupe-gorge.

Albanian

ushqim në stomak, neveri (abhorrence, abomination, aversion, contempt, disdain, disgust, disrelish, distaste, execration, horror, loathing, nausea, odiousness, odium, recoil, repugnance, repulsion, revolt, scorn), mbush (cement, charge, clog, close, cover in, cram, crowd, draw, fill, fill in, fill up, Grout, heap, imbue, impregnate, infest, inject, inspire, line, load, make out, meet, pad, pervade, pour out, pump, stop up, Stow, stuff, suffuse, tap, write out), ha me babëzi (gormandize), e ngrënë me babëzi, bllok që zë kalimin. (various references)

Arabic 

‏ممر ضيق (couloir, defile, gap, gat, gate, gut), ‏معدة (belly, stomach), ‏مضيق (bottleneck, isthmus, narrow, panhandle, sound, strait), ‏حلقوم (throat), ‏حلق (aspire, circle, ear ring, fauces, flatten out, flit, float, fly, fly off, gullet, hawk about, larynx, pharynx, plane, ring, rise, shaving, soar, take off, throat, tower, trim), ‏إلتهم (bolt, consume, demolish, devour, eat, eat up, engorge, gobble, gormandize, guzzle, ingest, make a pig of oneself, munch, overeat, shovel, snap, stuff, swallow, swig, tuck, tuck in, wolf), ‏إتخم (cloy, cram, glut, overfeed, sate, satiate, saturate, stoke, stuff, surfeit), ‏بطن (abdomen, back, belly, interiorize, internalize, line, middle, pad, paunch, quilt, redouble, stomach, underlay, venter). (various references)

Bulgarian 

търбух (maw, paunch, rumen, stomach), тъпча се (gormandize, guzzle, tuck in), тъпкане (guzzle), клисура (couloir, defile, draw, gap, narrow, neck, notch, opening, ravine), гърло (gullet, manhole, mouth, neck, pharynx, swallow, throat, weasand, whistle), вид стръв, лапане, лапам (gobble, ingurgitate, scoff, slummock), пролом (breach, gap, narrow, ravine), преяждане (gluttony, overindulgence), плюскам (guzzle). (various references)

Chamorro

dafflokgue. (various references)

Chinese 

狹路 , 峽 . (various references)

Czech

strž (Coomb, gulch, gully, ravine), rokle (chasm, Glen, gully, ravine), hrdlo (cervix, fauces, gules, neck, throat). (various references)

Danish

tvaerpind, tværpind. (various references)

Dutch

waterlozing, knevelhaak, bergkloof (chasm, cleft, gully, ravine). (various references)

Ecuadorian Quechua

huaicu. (various references)

Esperanto

montfendo (chasm, cleft, gully, ravine). (various references)

Faeroese

fjallaskarð (chasm, cleft, gully, pass, ravine). (various references)

Farsi 

پرخوری کردن , پرخوری (Avidity, Glut, Gut), پرخوردن (Glut, Overeat, Surfeit), گلوگاه , گلو (Gullet, Lane, Throat, Throttle), گدار, حلق , زیادتپاندن , ابکند (Gully, Ravine), شکم (Abdomen, Belly, Bowel, Breadbasket, Bulge, Gut, Kyte, Paunch, Tummy, Ventricle, Womb), دره تنگ (Glen), باحرص وولع خوردن (Glut). (various references)

Finnish

sola (defile, pass), rotko (chasm, cleft, ravine), launi, kuilu (abyss, chasm, cleft, gap, shaft), hotkia (gulp, wolf down), ahmia (eat ravenously, gormandize). (various references)

French

gorge. (various references)

German

schlucht (canyon, gores, gulch, gully, notch, ravine), Kehle (groove, gullet, throat, throttle). (various references)

Greek 

φαράγγι (canyon, gulch, ravine). (various references)

Hebrew 

למלא כרסו, לוע (jaw, maw, muzzle, pharynx, throat), לזלול (gobble, gormandize, guzzle, make a pig of oneself, overeat, scoff, wolf), להלעיט (cram, fatten, force feed, overfeed, stuff, surfeit), להתפטם (cloy, cram), ערוץ (bus, channel, cleft, ditch, gulch, gully, ravine), גיא (gulch, ravine, valley), בתרון (ravine), נקיק (cleft, crevice, fissure, ravine), נחל (ravine, river, stream, torrent, valley). (various references)

Hungarian

torok (boot, jugular, pharynx, throat, throttle), gége (laryngeal, larynx, throttle), hornyolat (chase, gouge, score), bevágás (channelling, chase, cut, furrow, incision, indent, kerf, mortice, mortise, Nick, score, scotch, slit, snick), bezabálás, erőd bejárata, garat (boot, gullet, hopper, pharynx), hasadék (breach, chink, chop, cleft, cranny, crevice, fissure, flaw, hiatus, ravine, rip, rive), hegyszakadék (defile), bástya bejárata, hegytorok (cove), zabálás (blow-out, feeding, gluttony, stuffing), lakmározás (bean-feast, bum, bummer, feasting), nagy evészet (spread), szurdok (canon, Canyon, Chine, creek, dingle, glen, gothic pass, gulch, Linn, notch, ravine), vágány (platform, rails, road, spur, track, tracks, trackway), vápa (furrow, pan, score), völgytorok, hegyszoros (cove, defile, glen, gullet, mountain pass, narrow, narrows, pass, ravine). (various references)

Italian

burrone (abyss, Canyon, chasm, gulch, gulf, gully, precipice, ravine). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

峡谷 (canyon, glen, ravine). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

きょうこく (canyon, glen, one's native land, powerful country, ravine, strong nation), さんきょう (bridge, gap, jetty, pier, ravine, Shinto and Buddhism and Confucianism, wharf), やまかい (gap, ravine), やまあい (ravine), ゴルジュ , はざま (eyelet, interval, loophole, ravine, valley). (various references)

Manx

sluggey (absorption, devour, devouring, draw, engulf, gorging, gulp, gulping, guzzle, guzzling, pulling, slug, suck down; gobbling, sucking, swallow, swallowing, swig), clash (channel, cleft, groove, hollow, open furrow, race, rubbish tip, trench, vale), braaid (col, target). (various references)

Norwegian

svelge (gulp), strupe (throat), fråtse, fjellkløft (gulch). (various references)

Pig Latin

orgegay.(various references)

Portuguese

goela (chap, fauces, gulf, jaws, maw, mouth, muzzle, throat), garganta (abysm, canyon, defile, dingle, fauces, gap, gate, gizzard, pass, ravine, swallow, throttle, whistle), refeição pesada, moldura (cadre, chaplet, fillet, frame, framework, molding, passepartout, reed, setting), isca de pescar, engolir (absorb, eat, engorge, engulf, gulf, gulp, ingest, neck, pocket, pouch, swallow), devorar (devour, eat, eat up, gobble, gormandize, gulp, prey, slummock), desfiladeiro (canyon, defile, dingle, gap, gullet, kloof, pass, ravine), curso de água torrencial, comer vorazmente (raven, stodge), anzol direito, agulha (broach, compass, needle, point, roasting-jack, spire, spur). (various references)

Romanian

ghiftuialã, gât (journal, neck, pull, ravine, scrag, sip, spout, swallow, throat), ghiftui (cram, glut, gormandize, pamper, swill), îmbuiba (cloy, cram, stuff, surfeit, swill), îmbuibare (gorging, surfeit), îndopa (cram, fatten, guzzle, overfeed, pamper, stuff, surfeit), înfuleca (bolt, engorge, guzzle, knap, slummock, wolf, wolf down), înghiţi cu lãcomie, beregatã (fauces, gullet, swallow, throttle), chei (embankment, fountain, gap, jetty, levee, mole, opening, pier, quay, wharf), mâncare înghiţitã, trecere strâmtã, strungã (breach, ravine), trecãtoare (notch, opening, pass), vãgãunã (gully, hollow, nook, ravine), pas (channel, foot, footmark, footprint, footstep, gate, leap, move, opening, pace, pass, pitch, remove, step, stride, tread, walk), sãtura (cloy, cram, fill, sate, satiate, soak, suffice), se ghiftui (cram), stomac (abomasum, belly, gizzard, maw, midriff, reticula, reticulum, rumen, stomach), strâmtoare (awkwardness, bottle-neck, clutch, constraint, extremity, fix, gullet, gut, jam, loss, narrow, narrows, necessity, scrape, sound, stew, Strait, trouble, unpleasant, want), curmãturã (ravine, saddle, saddleback). (various references)

Romany

boàzi. (various references)

Russian 

ущелье (coomb, couloir, defile, donga, gap, gulch, kloof, linn, notch, pass, purgatory, ravine), то, что проглочено, горжа, горло (fauces, gizzard, guzzle, neck, throat), глотка (gizzard, gullet, larynx, pharynx, swallow, throat, weasand), глотать (clip, gulp, ingest, swallow, swigged, swigging, swigs), выкружка, обкармливать ущелье, затор (jam up, mash), жадно глотать (bolt down, gobble, gulp, ingurgitate), пресыщение (bellyful, glut, repletion, satiation). (various references)

Sepedi

mogorogoro. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

gutati (devour, glut, gulp, guttle, ingest, swallow), grlo (fauces, neck, orifice, throat), tesnac (bay, defile, narrow, tight corner), pustiti da nabrekne, proždirati (devour), nasititi (satiate), klisura (canyon, defile, dingle, ghat, gill, glen), jaruga (coomb, gulch, gully, ravine), ždrelo (maw, pharynx). (various references)

Spanish

garganta (abysm, Coomb, gullet, neck, ravine, throat), hartarse (surfeit oneself), engullir (bolt, devour, engorge, gobble, gulp, guzzle, swallow, tuck in), canal de evacuación (channel, slurry channel), cañón (Barker, barrel, cannon, canyon, gun, pinfeather, pipe, quill, scape, shaft, stem, tube), barranco (gulch, ravine), barranca (gully), atracarse (glut oneself, overeat, stuff), atiborrar (cram), anzuelo sin agalla. (various references)

Swedish

slukastrupe, ravin (Chine, coulee, gap, gully, Linn, ravine), klyfta (chasm, cleft, fissure, gap, gully, ravine, section, segment), hålväg (Col, Linn, notch, ravine), frossa (ague, glut, gormandize, luxuriate, malaria, overindulge, revel). (various references)

Thai

ช่องเขา (col), กินอย่างตะกละ (gorge on, gorge with, stodge). (various references)

Turkish

geçit (access, aisle, alley, alleyway, causeway, close, corridor, crossing, crossover, gangway, gap, gate, gateway, gullet, gut, parade, pass, passage, passageway, runway, Strait, thoroughfare, vestibule, walkway), gırtlak (gullet, guttural, laryngeal, larynx, maw, pharyngal, pharyngeal, throat), vadi (Canyon, clough, Combe, Coomb, Coombe, dale, dell, Glen, kloof, Vale, valley), tıkınmak (batten, bolt, cram, engorge, gormandize, guzzle, ingurgitate, put away, shift, stodge, stuff, stuff oneself, tuck in), tıka basa yemek (make a pig of oneself, stodge, stuff, tuck in), tıka basa doldurmak (choke up, clutter, clutter up, cram, encumber, glut, pack, Stoke, tuck away), oburluk (gluttony, greed, greediness, voracity), boğaz (bosphorus, constriction, fauces, gullet, jugular, mountain pass, neck, pharyngal, pharyngeal, sound, Strait, swallow, throat, throttle, whistle). (various references)

Ukrainian

глотка (fauces, larynx, pharynx), вузька ущелина, об'їдатися (engorge, gormandize, load up, overeat, overfeed, surfeit oneself), обжерливість (belly worship, gluttony, gormandize), з'їдене, затор (congestion, dead lock, hold up, jam, jamming, lock, stopping), жадібно поглинати, переповнювати (burst, congest, cram, overbrim, overfill, overflow). (various references)

Vietnamese 

những cái đã ăn vào bụng hẽm núi. (various references)

Welsh

gwancio (glut), nant (brook, ravine, stream), llawcio (gobble, gulp), hafn (hollow, ravine), ceunant (ravine), bolio (belly), bolera (guzzle, sponge). (various references)

gurges, ingurgito. (various references)

gorge. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "gorge": gorged, gorgedly, gorgeous, gorgeously, gorgeousness, gorgeousnesses, gorger, gorgerin, gorgerins, gorgers, gorges, gorget, gorgeted, gorgets. (additional references)

Words ending with "gorge": disgorge, engorge, regorge. (additional references)

Words containing "gorge": disgorged, disgorges, engorged, engorgement, engorgements, engorges, regorged, regorges. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Gorge" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ageorge, garg, Gargi, geoge, geogra, george, georhge, gerg, ggorge, Girga, glorg, goage, godge, goga, goge, Gogen, gogu, Golgo, googa, googe, gorde, gordge, gorea, Goree, gorem, gorex, gorg, gorga, Gorgan, gorgem, Gorgo, Gorgu, Gorj, gorja, gorje, gorke, gorme, gorrem, gorven, Gorze, gourge, gowge, groger, grogie, Grohe, groje, grouge, Gurgen, Horge, Norge, ogge, Orge, torge, vorge, worge. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: grego.

-1 letter: ergo, goer, gore, grog, ogre.

-2 letters: egg, ego, erg, gor, ore, reg, roe.

-3 letters: er, go, oe, or, re.

+1 letter: dogger, fogger, gorged, gorger, gorges, gorget, gouger, gregos, hogger, jogger, logger.

+2 letters: boggier, boggler, clogger, doggers, doggery, doggier, doggrel, engorge, flogger, foggers, foggier, frogged, georgic, goggler, gorgers, gorgets, gougers, hoggers, joggers, joggler, loggers, loggier, progged, progger, regorge, slogger, soggier, toggery, toggler.

+3 letters: arpeggio, bogglers, cloggers, cloggier, defogger, disgorge, doggerel, doggoner, doggrels, engorged, engorges, floggers, froggier, gargoyle, geologer, georgics, gogglers, gogglier, gorgedly, gorgeous, gorgerin, gorgeted, groggery, groggier, jogglers, leggiero, mortgage, paragoge, proggers, regorged, regorges, rogueing, roughage, roughleg, sloggers, smoggier, togglers, waggoner.