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Incorruptible vs Gorge - What's the difference?

incorruptible | gorge |

As adjectives the difference between incorruptible and gorge

is that incorruptible is not subject to corruption or decay while gorge is (uk|slang) gorgeous.

As nouns the difference between incorruptible and gorge

is that incorruptible is (historical) one of an ancient religious sect of alexandria, whose adherents believed that the body of christ was incorruptible, and that he suffered hunger, thirst, and pain only in appearance while gorge is a deep narrow passage with steep rocky sides; a ravine.

As a verb gorge is

to eat greedily and in large quantities.

incorruptible

English

Alternative forms

* incorruptable * uncorruptible * uncorruptable

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Not subject to corruption or decay.
  • * Wake
    • Our bodies shall be changed into incorruptible and immortal substances.
  • Incapable of being bribed or morally corrupted; inflexibly just and upright.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (historical) One of an ancient religious sect of Alexandria, whose adherents believed that the body of Christ was incorruptible, and that he suffered hunger, thirst, and pain only in appearance.
    • ----

    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

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