gorge
gorge is a 5-letter English word with 15 senses as noun, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The throat; the gullet; the canal by which food passes to the stomach. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- noun. The throat; the gullet; the canal by which food passes to the stomach.
- noun. A narrow passage or entrance
- noun. A defile between mountains.
- noun. The entrance into a bastion or other outwork of a fort; -- usually synonymous with rear. See Illust. of Bastion.
- noun. That which is gorged or swallowed, especially by a hawk or other fowl.
- noun. A filling or choking of a passage or channel by an obstruction; as, an ice gorge in a river.
- noun. A concave molding; a cavetto.
- noun. The groove of a pulley.
- noun. To swallow; especially, to swallow with greediness, or in large mouthfuls or quantities.
- noun. To glut; to fill up to the throat; to satiate.
- intransitive verb. To eat greedily and to satiety.
- noun. the passage between the pharynx and the stomach
- noun. a narrow pass (especially one between mountains)
- noun. a deep ravine (usually with a river running through it)
- verb. overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself
"She stuffed herself at the dinner"
"The kids binged on ice cream"
Synonyms
esophagus, gullet, oesophagus, defile, binge, englut, engorge, glut, gormandise, gormandize, gourmandize, ingurgitate, overeat, overgorge, overindulge, satiate, stuff
Anagrams
Other playable words that use exactly the letters in gorge:
Common word forms
gorged, gorger, gorges, gorging, gorgeous, gorgeable
Words from these letters
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