to gorge
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5.9
- verb
- /ɡɔrdʒ/
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- On Thanksgiving, many families gorge themselves on turkey, stuffing, and pie.
She she, she still eats fruit, but she can't like gorge on fruit.
- She she, she still eats fruit, but she can't like gorge on fruit.
- And for a sight one or two months a year, they just gorge themselves on honey and they love it.
- But the tree bursts, and right now the greasy air floating from the hamburger tent where survivors gorge.
- For three weeks they moved from pool to pool and gorged themselves like beasts performing an obscene Eucharist.
- They may gorge themselves at the VIP banquet table that they get to sit at, but then complain about it.
- And if you didn't gorge yourself like crazy and have somewhere to put that mammoth stuff, then in the next maybe two weeks that you didn't get a lot of food.
Examples
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You starve yourself all day, living on coffee and cottage cheese, so that you can gorge yourself at one meal.
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Early in July, Lilya gorged herself on raspberries and wound up sick.
Fiction book (2000) -
We gorge ourselves on it.
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And for a sight one or two months a year, they just gorge themselves on honey and they love it.
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As they congratulate themselves and gorge themselves on the huge tables of Chinese food.
Fiction book (1991) -
And that's why when we found fruit, it would have been a really good idea to just gorge on this stuff.
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Too long have humans gorged themselves at the salad bar.
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The days I was cutting were sweltering, and I gorged on water.
Fiction book (1998) -
Look on the bright side, if we get stuck in here all night, we can gorge ourselves on vending machine chocolate and fizzy drinks.
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Midas spent his days in a stupor of splendor, spoiling himself and his beloved daughter and gorging himself on feasts and wine.
Synonyms
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3.1
To eat more food than your body needs at one time
13
2.9
To eat food quickly because you are very hungry
12
4.5
To do something like eating, drinking, or watching a lot in a short time
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7.5
Eat a very large amount of food without control
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7.9
To eat a lot in a greedy way
5
7.8
To eat in a very messy and greedy way
3
6.2
Let yourself and others have too much food or drink
3
8.2
To eat a lot of food very quickly
3
4.9
To eat a very large amount of food
1
7.6
To eat or drink too much
1
7.7
To eat a lot of food quickly without control
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9.9
To eat a lot of food very quickly
1
7.9
To eat too much food at one time
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9.9
To eat a lot of food quickly without control
To eat too much food at once
To eat too much food in a greedy way
To eat too much food quickly and greedily
To eat a lot of food in a greedy way until you feel too full
To eat too much in a greedy way
To eat food quickly and greedily
To eat a lot of food very quickly
To eat a lot of food quickly
Eating a lot and not leaving enough for others
To eat a lot of food quickly and greedily
Antonyms
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
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Etymology
The verb gorge comes from the same old word for 'throat' (Latin gula) because it once meant to 'fill the throat', so to gorge is to eat a large amount greedily and stuff your 'throat' full.