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GORGES (6)
gorge
gorge, gorged, gorges, gorging, gorgedly - v
to stuff with food
synonym
cram, glut, sate, stuff, surfeit
in a sentence
We gorged on chips and cookies.
We gorged ourselves on chips and cookies.
The Latin root of gorge means "throat," leading to both the "narrow passage" meaning and the French gorgier, "to swallow," which influenced the verb version of gorge, "to overeat." You may love to gorge on ice cream, but the stomachache afterward won't be very pleasant. To remember the "canyon" meaning, think of the famous upstate New York bumper sticker, “Ithaca is gorges.†It's a play on gorgeous, meaning beautiful, and the beautiful ravines in the area.
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