Gorge
noun
- 1.
- (a deep, narrow pass between steep heights, the food filling the stomach, the throat) ច្រកភ្នំ mountain gorge ជ្រោះជ្រៅ, gorge rises with sentiment បំពង់ក
verb — past tense: gorged ; past participle: gorged ; present participle: gorging ;
- 1.
- (INTRANSITIVE) ~ (oneself) (on with something) (to swallow with greediness) Don't gorge, ស៊ីចាក់ច្រាស, gorging with ឡើងពេញកំប៉ោងទៅដោយ
- 2.
- (TRANSITIVE) (to feed greedily and to excess) gorge oneself ស៊ីចាក់ច្រាស
ENGLISH MEANING
noun
- 1.
- The throat; the gullet; the canal by which food passes to the stomach.
- 2.
- A narrow passage or entrance
- 3.
- A defile between mountains.
- 4.
- The entrance into a bastion or other outwork of a fort; -- usually synonymous with rear.
- 5.
- That which is gorged or swallowed, especially by a hawk or other fowl.
- 6.
- A filling or choking of a passage or channel by an obstruction; as, an ice gorge in a river.
- 7.
- A concave molding; a cavetto.
- 8.
- The groove of a pulley.
- 9.
- A primitive device used instead of a fishhook, consisting of an object easy to be swallowed but difficult to be ejected or loosened, as a piece of bone or stone pointed at each end and attached in the middle to a line.
verb — past tense: gorged ; past participle: gorged ; present participle: gorging ;
- 1.
- To swallow; especially, to swallow with greediness, or in large mouthfuls or quantities.
- 2.
- To glut; to fill up to the throat; to satiate.
- 3.
- (INTRANSITIVE) To eat greedily and to satiety.