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noun

plural of gorge
as in ravines
a narrow opening between hillsides or mountains that can be used for passage walked the bridge over the gorge, marveling at the spectacular drop

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verb

present tense third-person singular of gorge
1
as in stuffs
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 feasts
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 devours
to swallow or eat greedily the ravenous dogs furiously gorged the scraps of meat

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Recent Examples of gorges
Noun
Natural Beauty Beauty is born from nature in Greece due to an incredibly diverse landscape replete with everything from mountains, lakes, forests, and caves to craters, coasts, gorges, and volcanoes. — Jennifer Tzeses, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 Sep. 2026 Picture show The bridge-building nonprofit Fika is connecting communities in Rwanda separated by rivers and gorges. — Brittney Melton, NPR, 7 Sep. 2026 The mother and daughter are among 90 Americans missing after the devastating landslide and flood, which tore through steep mountain gorges near the Nepal-China border and surged downstream along a river, wiping out entire villages. — Jessie Yeung, CNN Money, 28 Aug. 2026 Nepal's mountainous terrain, dotted with deep valleys and narrow gorges, makes rescue and relief operations challenging. — Arshad R. Zargar, CBS News, 26 Aug. 2026 Riders pass waterfalls, deep gorges, alpine lakes, historic sites, and sweeping mountain views while climbing nearly 3,000 feet. — Bailey Berg, Travel + Leisure, 16 Aug. 2026 The outdoorsy traveler hiking the gorges in Crete or the trails in Andros should bring a pair of sturdy shoes, a hat for sun protection, and tons of SPF. — Elly Leavitt, Vogue, 27 July 2026 The list spans the country, from New England villages awash in crimson and gold to alpine landscapes in Colorado and dramatic river gorges in the Pacific Northwest. — Brittany Anas, Forbes.com, 27 July 2026 With peaks up to 1,531 metres and cut through by deep gorges, these mountains are wild and spectacular, said Oliver Smith in the Financial Times. — The Week Uk, TheWeek, 14 June 2026
Verb
Once in Dun, Mathilda gorges herself on strange delicacies while assembling disparate pieces of Hermia. — Literary Hub, 12 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for gorges
  1. ravines
  2. stuffs
  3. feasts
  4. devours
  5. canyons
  6. inhales
  7. valleys
  8. gulps
Noun
  • Many more were imperiled by muddy water racing through the narrow ravines, sparking frantic rescue missions for dozens.
    — Holly Yan, CNN Money, 1 Sep. 2026
  • Lake Overstreet has about five miles of multi-use trails through live oaks (a northern Florida staple), hills and ravines surrounding a secluded 144-acre lake.
    — Austin Perry OutKick, FOXNews.com, 24 Aug. 2026
Definition of ravines
Verb
  • Wilson is again a dominant force on both ends of the floor, stuffs the box score with points, rebounds and blocks, and has improved every season while keeping the Aces as a perennial contender.
    — Annie Costabile, New York Times, 20 Aug. 2026
  • Throughout, visiting tourist Madeleine (Kristen Stewart) stuffs her face with every kind of meat, vegetable and carb while her father Phil (Woody Harrelson) is the one whose stomach miraculously swells.
    — Leslie Felperin, HollywoodReporter, 17 May 2026
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  • Jordan Clarkson, New York Clarkson rebirthed his career in New York as a role-playing bench wing who feasts on offensive boards (no, really) and plays more defense than the Utah version.
    — John Hollinger, New York Times, 17 June 2026
  • Well, Sydney feasts a little bit at the end.
    — Claire Messud, Vogue, 8 Jan. 2026
Definition of feasts
Verb
  • The larvae come from the Cochliomyia hominivorax fly, which invades open wounds or the mucous membranes of body openings in any warm-blooded animal, including humans, and devours tissue, causing the wounds to become increasingly deep and painful.
    — Abraham Tellez, Los Angeles Times, 25 Aug. 2026
  • The fungus then slowly devours the ant, sprouting through its head in one final indignity.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, 6 Aug. 2026
Definition of devours
Noun
  • After passing through Denver, expect to ascend the Rockies, glide over Utah’s salt flats, past red rock canyons, and along the Sierra Nevadas.
    — Jessica Puckett, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 Sep. 2026
  • The monsoon season can be a particularly dangerous time in mountain canyons in Utah and the Southwest.
    — Janet Loehrke, USA Today, 1 Sep. 2026
Definition of canyons
Verb
  • The child inhales for four counts, holds for four counts, exhales for four counts and holds again for four counts.
    — Samantha Agate, Sacbee.com, 10 Aug. 2026
  • The chemical is particularly tough on the human respiratory system and, depending on how much a person inhales, MMA can cause everything from sore throats and cough to dizziness, nausea and, at the highest levels, damage to the nervous system, Kleinman said.
    — Sierra van der Brug, Oc Register, 23 May 2026
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Noun
  • It’s set on a remote farm nestled high in the Rocky Mountains in the early 1950s, and the images — of jutting peaks and plunging valleys, of endless stretches of pine, of the craggy frosted grandeur of it all — are vivid enough to carry you away.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 5 Sep. 2026
  • Nine days after flash flooding washed away valleys and buried entire villages, rescue workers in Nepal had started to shift their operations from finding survivors to recovering bodies.
    — Kosh Raj Koirala, CNN Money, 5 Sep. 2026
Definition of valleys
Verb
  • The customer gulps it down in a single stretch and drops it into a bin – visible proof of his relief, at least for this moment, from the sweltering heat.
    — Light Oriye Tamunotonye, Christian Science Monitor, 3 Sep. 2026
  • What's more, while virtually all VTOLs being developed these days are electric, the Janus-1 is powered by a turboshaft engine that gulps n' burns diesel, kerosene or Jet A fuel.
    — Ben Coxworth October 21, New Atlas, 21 Oct. 2025
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