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gorging

Variant of gorge

noun

  1. the throat or gullet
  2. the crop or stomach of a hawk
    1. the maw or stomach of a voracious being or animal
    2. food or a meal to fill or stuff the stomach
    3. the contents of the stomach
  3. a feeling of disgust, anger, etc.: it made my gorge rise
  4. the entrance from the rear into a bastion or projecting section of a fortification
  5. a deep, narrow pass between steep heights
  6. ☆ a mass that blocks up a passage

intransitive verb gorged, gorging

to eat gluttonously

transitive verb

  1. to fill the gorge of; glut
  2. to swallow greedily

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2010 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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