Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: gorge
IPA transcription: [ɡ'ɔɹdʒ]
verb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: gorge, ingurgitate, overindulge, glut, englut, stuff, engorge, overgorge, overeat, gormandize, gormandise, gourmandize, binge, pig_out, satiate, scarf_out
    Meaning: overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself; "She stuffed herself at the dinner"; "The kids binged on ice cream"
Usage examples
  • Presently the bottom of the gorge began to slope more rapidly.
  • I bent my steps immediately to the mountains, and, about ten, entered a gorge which was entirely new to me.
  • There was little change in the formation of the gorge; it still wound its erratic course between precipitous cliffs.
  • Simultaneously there broke upon the astonished ears of both attackers and attacked a volley of shots from the gorge.
  • And so they moved to the side of the gorge beneath the shade of an overhanging rock and lay down in the hot sand to rest.
  • The outlet, or the Susquehanna, flows through a gorge in the low banks just mentioned, which may have a width of two hundred feet.
  • Now and then he would pause for a few moments to make sure that he was not straying from the river gorge, which occasional rocks and foliage hid from his view.
  • When I looked about with the return of light I saw majestic fir-grown mountains on either hand, almost meeting overhead at some points, deeply shading the mossy gorge.
  • The way, now tangled among the nameless peaks and ranges, bore steadily southward, rising all the time, in spite of many brief downward curves where a steep gorge must be crossed.
  • It was some distance along this gorge that I found myself sitting the next morning: and how, and in what trance, I passed that whole blank night is obliterated from my consciousness.