Binge vs Gorge - What's the difference?
binge | gorge |
A short period of excessive consumption, especially of excessive alcohol consumption.
(eating disorder) A rapid and excessive consumption of food.
To engage in a short period of excessive consumption, especially of excessive alcohol consumption.
(to engage in a short period of excessive consumption)
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* Italian: (t)
(trans-bottom)
A deep narrow passage with steep rocky sides; a ravine.
* '>citation
The throat or gullet.
* Spenser
* Shakespeare
That which is gorged or swallowed, especially by a hawk or other fowl.
* Spenser
A filling or choking of a passage or channel by an obstruction.
(architecture) A concave moulding; a cavetto.
(nautical) The groove of a pulley.
To eat greedily and in large quantities.
To swallow, especially with greediness, or in large mouthfuls or quantities.
* Johnson
To glut; to fill up to the throat; to satiate.
* Dryden
* Addison
(UK, slang) Gorgeous.
As nouns the difference between binge and gorge
is that binge is a short period of excessive consumption, especially of excessive alcohol consumption while gorge is a deep narrow passage with steep rocky sides; a ravine.As verbs the difference between binge and gorge
is that binge is to engage in a short period of excessive consumption, especially of excessive alcohol consumption while gorge is to eat greedily and in large quantities.As an adjective gorge is
gorgeous.binge
English
Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* bender, jag, spree, tootDerived terms
* binge drinking * binge eating * binge watchingVerb
Derived terms
* binge and purgeSee also
*Anagrams
* *gorge
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl), from (etyl), fromNoun
(en noun)- Wherewith he gripped her gorge with so great pain.
- Now, how abhorred! my gorge rises at it.
- And all the way, most like a brutish beast, / He spewed up his gorge , that all did him detest.
- an ice gorge in a river
- (Gwilt)
Verb
(gorg)- They gorged themselves on chocolate and cake.
- The fish has gorged the hook.
- Gorge with my blood thy barbarous appetite.
- The giant, gorged with flesh, and wine, and blood, / Lay stretch'd at length and snoring in his den
Derived terms
* disgorge * engorgeEtymology 2
Shortened from gorgeous .Adjective
(head)- Oh, look at him: isn't he gorge ?