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gorgenoun a narrow opening between hillsides or mountains that can be used for passagewalked the bridge over the gorge, marveling at the spectacular drop canyon(also cañon), col, couloir, defile, flume, gap, gill(British), gulch, gulf, kloof(South African), linn(chiefly Scottish), notch, pass, ravine, saddle abyss, chasm, cirque, cleft, crevasse, crevice, cwm(chiefly British), fissurecombe(also coombe or coomb, British), dale, dell, glen, hollow, shut-in, vale, valleybasin, floodplain, kettlearroyo, barranca(also barranco), coulee, draw, gully(also gulley), gutter, nullah, trench, trough, wadi, wash(West) gorgeverbto fill with food to capacitywe gorged ourselves on the four pies Aunt Martha had brought for Thanksgiving cram, glut, sate, stuff, surfeit gobble, gormandize, pig outgulp, guzzlecloy, fillbanquet, feast, regale diet, fast to eat greedily or to excessthe kids began gorging on Halloween candy the minute they got back from trick-or-treating gormandize, overeat, pig out, swill devour, glut, sate, stuff, surfeit, wolfbanquet, feast, regalebolt, cram, gulp, guzzle load up on nibble, peck, pick, taste to swallow or eat greedilythe ravenous dogs furiously gorged the scraps of meat bolt, cram, devour, glut(archaic), gobble, gormandize, gulp, ingurgitate, inhale, raven, scarf, scoff, slop, wolf overeat, pig out, swill nibble, peck, pick v.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 in the 14th century |