Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having a gorge or throat; throated.
- In heraldry, bearing something around its neck; especially and more accurately, having a crown or coronet round its neck: as, a swan ducally gorged. Also
collared . - Glutted; over-fed; stuffed.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having a gorge or throat.
- adjective (Her.) Bearing a coronet or ring about the neck.
- adjective Glutted; fed to the full.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective With a
stomach stuffed full offood . - adjective heraldry With the
neck collared orencircled by an object. - verb Simple past tense and past participle of
gorge .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Ever since the CD revolution of the '80s, when the record labels gorged on the profits from reselling the public albums they already owned at twice the original price, we've been inundated with box sets and special editions with bonus tracks designed to make us shell out for our old favorites over and over.
Eric Williams: "My Aim Is Even Truer": the Special-Editioning of Everything 2008
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Mr. Gross has adopted as a factory mark his family crest, a falcon rising ducally gorged, which is printed on each piece in black.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 1082, September 26, 1896 Various
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In his early life as well as later, spasmodic fits of abnormal mental activity when he 'gorged' books, especially the classics, as he did food, alternated with other fits of indolence.
A History of English Literature Robert Huntington Fletcher
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I gorged myself on yummy dulce de leche desserts, tried crocodile (see above picture), ate steak, sampled every type of empanadas, found the best alfajores, fell in love with croissants filled with melted cheese and ham … everything was excellent …
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I gorged myself on yummy dulce de leche desserts, tried crocodile (see above picture), ate steak, sampled every type of empanadas, found the best alfajores, fell in love with croissants filled with melted cheese and ham … everything was excellent …
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The lifeless body floated at the end of a grappling hook like a dead fish, right eye gorged by a prong.
Rude Awakening vic fortezza 2011
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Billions of flies gorged themselves on the great stacks of refuse and excrement.
Modern Science in the Bible Ben Hobrink 2011
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I gorged myself on yummy dulce de leche desserts, tried crocodile (see above picture), ate steak, sampled every type of empanadas, found the best alfajores, fell in love with croissants filled with melted cheese and ham … everything was excellent …
Argentina: Part I at 2009
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He'd gorged on canned peaches and yams for five months, gaining fifty pounds, but then proceeded to lose over sixty the next five as the abandoned grocery store's stock slowly shrank.
SAMESON JAMESON Wally Rudolph 2011
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As the Bounder sailed from Chastor, there was mug after mug of coffee, and then Umber gorged himself on fruit, bread, fish, and cheese and washed it down with a mug of ale.
End of Time P. W. Catanese 2011
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