gorge

noun · verb · adjectiveA2

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Danh từ

noun

Plural noun:

gorges

1.
(archaic)The front aspect of the neck; the outside of the throat.
2.
(archaic, literary)The inside of the throat; the esophagus, the gullet; (falconry, specifically) the crop or gizzard of a hawk.
3.
(botany) The throat of a flower.
4.
Food that has been taken into the gullet or the stomach, particularly if it is regurgitated or vomited out.
My gorge rises at the sight of it.
5.
(US)A choking or filling of a channel or passage by an obstruction; the obstruction itself.
an ice gorge in a river
6.
(architecture) A concave moulding; a cavetto.
7.
(architecture, military, fortification) The rearward side of an outwork, a bastion, or a fort, often open, or not protected against artillery; a narrow entry passage into the outwork of an enclosed fortification.
8.
(fishing) A primitive device used instead of a hook to catch fish, consisting of an object that is easy to swallow but difficult to eject or loosen, such as a piece of bone or stone pointed at each end and attached in the middle to a line.
9.
(geography) A deep, narrow passage with steep, rocky sides, particularly one with a stream running through it; a ravine.
Đồng nghĩa: canyon
10.
(mechanical engineering) The groove of a pulley.
11.
(plural normally)(heraldry, usually in the plural) A whirlpool used as a heraldic charge.
Đồng nghĩa: gurge
12.
An act of gorging.

Động từ

verb

V_es/s

gorges

V_ing/Gerund

gorging

V_ed/pp

gorged

1.
(intransitive, reflexive)To stuff the gorge or gullet with food; to eat greedily and in large quantities. [with on]
They gorged themselves on chocolate and cake.
2.
(transitive)To swallow, especially with greediness, or in large mouthfuls or quantities.
3.
(transitive)To fill up to the throat; to glut, to satiate.
Đồng nghĩa: sate, stuff
4.
(transitive)To fill up (an organ, a vein, etc.); to block up or obstruct; (US, specifically) of ice: to choke or fill a channel or passage, causing an obstruction.
Đồng nghĩa: engorge

Tính từ

adjective

Comparative

more gorgemost gorge

Superlative

gorg

1.
(slang)Gorgeous.
Oh, look at him: isn’t he gorge?

Từ liên quan

Đồng nghĩa

canyon gurge sate stuffengorge

Cùng gốc / liên quan

gorgetgorgeted

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Nguồn gốc từ

ine-pro From Middle English gorge, a borrowing from Old French gorge (throat) (modern gorge), from *gorga, *gurga, from Latin gurges (eddy, whirlpool; gulf; sea), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *gʷerh₃- (to devour, swallow; to eat). The English word is cognate with gorxa throat, gorga, gorgia (gorge, ravine; (obsolete) throat), gorga, gorja, gorja, gorja. gour gurges.