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Binge vs Gorge - What's the difference?

binge | gorge |

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)
  • A short period of excessive consumption, especially of excessive alcohol consumption.
  • (eating disorder) A rapid and excessive consumption of food.
  • Synonyms

    * bender, jag, spree, toot

    Derived terms

    * binge drinking * binge eating * binge watching

    Verb

  • To engage in a short period of excessive consumption, especially of excessive alcohol consumption.
  • (to engage in a short period of excessive consumption) (trans-mid) * Italian: (t) (trans-bottom)

    Derived terms

    * binge and purge

    See also

    *

    Anagrams

    * *

    gorge

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl), from (etyl), from

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A deep narrow passage with steep rocky sides; a ravine.
  • * '>citation
  • The throat or gullet.
  • * Spenser
  • Wherewith he gripped her gorge with so great pain.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Now, how abhorred! my gorge rises at it.
  • That which is gorged or swallowed, especially by a hawk or other fowl.
  • * Spenser
  • And all the way, most like a brutish beast, / He spewed up his gorge , that all did him detest.
  • A filling or choking of a passage or channel by an obstruction.
  • an ice gorge in a river
  • (architecture) A concave moulding; a cavetto.
  • (Gwilt)
  • (nautical) The groove of a pulley.
  • Verb

    (gorg)
  • To eat greedily and in large quantities.
  • They gorged themselves on chocolate and cake.
  • To swallow, especially with greediness, or in large mouthfuls or quantities.
  • * Johnson
  • The fish has gorged the hook.
  • To glut; to fill up to the throat; to satiate.
  • * Dryden
  • Gorge with my blood thy barbarous appetite.
  • * Addison
  • The giant, gorged with flesh, and wine, and blood, / Lay stretch'd at length and snoring in his den
    Derived terms
    * disgorge * engorge

    Etymology 2

    Shortened from gorgeous .

    Adjective

    (head)
  • (UK, slang) Gorgeous.
  • Oh, look at him: isn't he gorge ?