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Gorge is a related term of glut.


As a verb gorge

is .

As a noun glut is

heat, glow.

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 ?

    Anagrams

    * English intransitive verbs ----

    glut

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • an excess, too much
    • a glut of the market
  • * Macaulay
    • A glut of those talents which raise men to eminence.
  • * {{quote-news
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  • That which is swallowed.
    • (Milton)
  • Something that fills up an opening; a clog.
  • A wooden wedge used in splitting blocks.
  • (mining) A piece of wood used to fill up behind cribbing or tubbing.
    • (Raymond)
  • (bricklaying) A bat, or small piece of brick, used to fill out a course.
    • (Knight)
  • (architecture) An arched opening to the ashpit of a kiln.
  • A block used for a fulcrum.
  • The broad-nosed eel (Anguilla latirostris ), found in Europe, Asia, the West Indies, etc.
    • (Webster 1913)

    Synonyms

    * excess, overabundance, plethora, slew, surfeit, surplus

    Antonyms

    * lack * shortage

    Related terms

    * glutton * gluttony

    Verb

  • To fill to capacity, to satisfy all requirement or demand, to sate.
    • to glut one's appetite
  • * Charles Kingsley
    • The realms of nature and of art were ransacked to glut the wonder, lust, and ferocity of a degraded populace.
  • To eat gluttonously or to satiety.
  • * Tennyson
    • Like three horses that have broken fence, / And glutted all night long breast-deep in corn.

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