gorge
2
9.9
- noun
- /ɡɔrdʒ/
- Archaic
:
esófago
- Fearing for his health, his parents compelled him to stay put at the table until he had gulped down the bloody gobbets that made his gorge rise.
Examples
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The veterinarian explained that some animals have a gorge that connects their throat to their stomach.
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Elizabeth Crenshaw was thin, all long bones and taut muscles, because Fran Benedetto had been running for more than a decade and because terror had made it hard for her, these last few years, to eat without feeling the food rise back up into her gorge at a word, a sound, a look.
Fiction book (1999) -
My gorge rises at it.
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Prepare to hold your gorge, Mr. Xenophobe.
Fiction book (1994) -
But when her gorge continued even after Leighton had settled into brandy and cigars, the spectacle became nauseating.
Fiction book (1997) -
In some reptiles, the gorge plays a crucial role in the digestion of large prey.
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During the dissection, we observed the gorge and its importance in the animal's anatomy.
Synonyms
27
4.4
A muscular tube that carries food and drink from the throat to the stomach
9
6.0
A tube in the throat that carries food from the mouth to the stomach
Compounds
A very high steel arch bridge that crosses the New River at Fayetteville, West Virginia
A deep valley in northeastern Tanzania where scientists found early human bones and tools
Surface Forms
Etymology
Gorge meaning the passage between the mouth and the stomach comes from Latin gula 'throat'. So the word simply names the narrow 'throat' or 'gullet' where food passes down.