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verb

1
as in to stuff
to fill with food to capacity we gorged ourselves on the four pies Aunt Martha had brought for Thanksgiving

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2
as in to feast
to eat greedily or to excess the kids began gorging on Halloween candy the minute they got back from trick-or-treating

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3
as in to devour
to swallow or eat greedily the ravenous dogs furiously gorged the scraps of meat

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How is the word gorge different from other verbs like it?

Some common synonyms of gorge are cloy, glut, pall, sate, satiate, and surfeit. While all these words mean "to fill to repletion," gorge suggests glutting to the point of bursting or choking.

gorged themselves with chocolate

When can cloy be used instead of gorge?

The words cloy and gorge can be used in similar contexts, but cloy stresses the disgust or boredom resulting from such surfeiting.

sentimental pictures that cloy after a while

When might glut be a better fit than gorge?

Although the words glut and gorge have much in common, glut implies excess in feeding or supplying.

a market glutted with diet books

Where would pall be a reasonable alternative to gorge?

While in some cases nearly identical to gorge, pall emphasizes the loss of ability to stimulate interest or appetite.

a life of leisure eventually begins to pall

How do satiate and sate relate to one another, in the sense of gorge?

Both satiate and sate may sometimes imply only complete satisfaction but more often suggest repletion that has destroyed interest or desire.

years of globe-trotting had satiated their interest in travel
readers were sated with sensationalistic stories

When could surfeit be used to replace gorge?

While the synonyms surfeit and gorge are close in meaning, surfeit implies a nauseating repletion.

surfeited themselves with junk food

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of gorge
Noun
There is no reason to wait until a ’ber month to order up a tray of fresh oysters or gorge on crab legs. Nora Heston Tarte, Mercury News, 26 Sep. 2025 Travelers can hike to the deep gorges of Gola di Gorropu or even traverse Sahara-like landscapes at the Dunes of Piscinas. Chloe Arrojado, AFAR Media, 26 Sep. 2025
Verb
While the results suggest the latter dined on a diet of fish, the former was probably an opportunistic carnivore, gorging on the flesh of plant-eating dinosaurs. Rosie McCall, Discover Magazine, 28 July 2025 Or Donald Trump, who is said to go up to sixteen hours without eating, avoiding breakfast and often shunning lunch before gorging on a dinner of two Big Macs and two Filets-O-Fish, washed down with a chocolate shake. Lauren Collins, New Yorker, 21 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for gorge
Recent Examples of Synonyms for gorge
Noun
  • The couple had come up from their Sun City home in metro Phoenix in spring to shuttle rim-to-rim canyon hikers to their vehicles, hoping to escape the summer heat like many of their clients.
    Brandon Loomis, AZCentral.com, 5 Oct. 2025
  • Try the roughly two-mile Hickman Bridge Trail to admire the canyon and walk beneath the 300-foot Hickman Bridge, a natural sandstone arch.
    Stephanie Vermillion, Travel + Leisure, 5 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • This recipe has cabbage leaves stuffed with a delicious mixture of meat, pork, and rice.
    Emma Ashe, Southern Living, 1 Oct. 2025
  • The pasta is stuffed with a huitlacoche and parmesan paste in a dish that is meant to showcase the full lifecycle of corn.
    Sara Rosenthal, Denver Post, 30 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Users voted each day to decide which brown bears at Katmai National Park — who are busy feasting on salmon to pack on pounds for winter — deserve the top spot.
    Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 1 Oct. 2025
  • No country feasted on the H-1B quite like India.
    Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Tehran also has to say no to megaprojects that devour budgets and ecosystems.
    Nik Kowsar, Time, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Smith, the charity board member, stands in between the long blades of grass that have grown back where blazing fires devoured everything in its path just a year ago.
    Alaa Elassar, CNN Money, 1 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Of course, Tom finds him first and inanely yells his name across the ravine.
    Grace Byron, Vulture, 6 Oct. 2025
  • From the top of a lift, the three of us descended 4,800 feet into a ravine that, over the course of two hours, funneled us to Refugio Frey.
    Scott Yorko, Travel + Leisure, 4 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • That may sate a Democratic Party base that’s hungry for its leaders to put up a fight against the Republican administration, said Thad Kousser, a political science professor at UC San Diego.
    Grant Stringer, Mercury News, 30 Sep. 2025
  • But, if the barista at your local coffee shop knows you by name, a more expensive model might be the only way to sate your caffeine habit.
    Lauren Joseph, Architectural Digest, 25 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • All in all, an ideal movie snack with enough kick to prevent you from overeating.
    Alaina Chou, Bon Appetit Magazine, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Take deep breaths, chew slowly, and eat mindfully to aid digestion and avoid overeating.
    Michiko Tomioka, CNBC, 19 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Simply inhaling for four counts and exhaling for four counts brings oxygen to your muscles, reducing the emotion's intensity and relaxing the body.
    Juli Fraga, CNBC, 24 Sep. 2025
  • Medicines needing to be inhaled or smoked are prohibited unless in a prescribed inhaler.
    Ed Masley, AZCentral.com, 23 Sep. 2025

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“Gorge.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gorge. Accessed 7 Oct. 2025.

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