Usually means: Steep-sided valley formed by water.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. gorge: Merriam-Webster
  2. gorge: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. gorge: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. gorge: Collins English Dictionary
  5. gorge: Vocabulary.com
  6. Gorge, gorge: Wordnik
  7. gorge: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Gorge, gorge: Wiktionary
  9. gorge: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. gorge: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. gorge: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. gorge: Dictionary.com
  13. gorge (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. gorge: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Gorge (disambiguation), Gorge (fortification), Gorge, The Gorge (album), The Gorge: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Gorge: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. gorge: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. gorge: Rhymezone
  19. gorge, gorge (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. gorge: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. gorge: FreeDictionary.org
  22. gorge: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. gorge: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. gorge: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. gorge: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. gorge: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. gorge: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. GORGE: Acronym Finder
  2. gorge: Idioms

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. gorge: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Gorge: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  3. The Gorge: A Seattle Lexicon
  4. The Gorge, gorge: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Gorge: Dictionary of Military Architecture
  2. Urban Conservation Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See gorged as well.)

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noun:  (archaic) The front aspect of the neck; the outside of the throat.
noun:  (archaic, literary) The inside of the throat; the esophagus, the gullet; (falconry, specifically) the crop or gizzard of a hawk.
noun:  Food that has been taken into the gullet or the stomach, particularly if it is regurgitated or vomited out.
noun:  (US) A choking or filling of a channel or passage by an obstruction; the obstruction itself.
noun:  (architecture) A concave moulding; a cavetto.
noun:  (architecture, military, fortification) The rearward side of an outwork, a bastion, or a fort, often open, or not protected against artillery; a narrow entry passage into the outwork of an enclosed fortification.
noun:  (fishing) A primitive device used instead of a hook to catch fish, consisting of an object that is easy to swallow but difficult to eject or loosen, such as a piece of bone or stone pointed at each end and attached in the middle to a line.
noun:  (geography) A deep, narrow passage with steep, rocky sides, particularly one with a stream running through it; a ravine.
noun:  (mechanical engineering) The groove of a pulley.
noun:  (heraldry, usually in the plural) A whirlpool used as a heraldic charge.
verb:  (intransitive, reflexive) To stuff the gorge or gullet with food; to eat greedily and in large quantities. [with on]
verb:  (transitive) To swallow, especially with greediness, or in large mouthfuls or quantities.
verb:  (transitive) To fill up to the throat; to glut, to satiate.
verb:  (transitive) To fill up (an organ, a vein, etc.); to block up or obstruct; (US, specifically) of ice: to choke or fill a channel or passage, causing an obstruction.
noun:  An act of gorging.
adjective:  (slang) Gorgeous.
noun:  A male given name.

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