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gorge

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of gorge

a narrow opening between hillsides or mountains that can be used for passage

  • walked the bridge over the gorge, marveling at the spectacular drop
Synonyms of gorge

canyon (also cañon), col, couloir, defile, flume, gap, gill [British], gulch, gulf, kloof [South African], linn [chiefly Scottish], notch, pass, ravine, saddle
Words Related to gorge

abyss, chasm, cirque, cleft, crevasse, crevice, cwm [chiefly British], fissure

combe (also coombe) [British], dale, dell, glen, hollow, shut-in, vale, valley

basin, floodplain, kettle

arroyo, barranca (also barranco), coulee, draw, gully (also gulley), gutter, nullah, trench, trough, wadi, wash [West]

gorge

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of gorge

1 to fill with food to capacity

  • we gorged ourselves on the four pies Aunt Martha had brought for Thanksgiving
Synonyms of gorge

cram, glut, sate, stuff, surfeit
Words Related to gorge

gobble, gormandize, pig out

gulp, guzzle

cloy, fill

banquet, feast, regale
Near Antonyms of gorge

diet, fast

2 to eat greedily or to excess

  • the kids began gorging on Halloween candy the minute they got back from trick-or-treating
Synonyms of gorge

gormandize, overeat, pig out, swill
Words Related to gorge

devour, glut, sate, stuff, surfeit, wolf

banquet, feast, regale

bolt, cram, gulp, guzzle
Phrases Synonymous with gorge

load up on
Near Antonyms of gorge

nibble, peck, pick, taste

3 to swallow or eat greedily

  • the ravenous dogs furiously gorged the scraps of meat
Synonyms of gorge

bolt, cram, devour, glut [archaic], gobble, gormandize, gulp, ingurgitate, inhale, raven, scarf, scoff, slop, wolf
Words Related to gorge

overeat, pig out, swill
Near Antonyms of gorge

nibble, peck, pick

Synonym Discussion of gorge

satiate, sate, surfeit, cloy, pall, glut, gorge mean to fill to repletion. 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
surfeit implies a nauseating repletion.
    • surfeited themselves with junk food
cloy stresses the disgust or boredom resulting from such surfeiting.
    • sentimental pictures that cloy after a while
pall emphasizes the loss of ability to stimulate interest or appetite.
    • a life of leisure eventually begins to pall
glut implies excess in feeding or supplying.
    • a market glutted with diet books
gorge suggests glutting to the point of bursting or choking.
    • gorged themselves with chocolate

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