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# gorge

«gorge» in Mova's school dictionary: **noun A deep, narrow valley with steep rocky sides…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a gorge, gorges); verb (gorge, gorges, gorged, gorging)

### meaning for a pupil

1) noun A deep, narrow valley with steep rocky sides, usually with a river at the bottom. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gorge/#m1)

2) verb To eat a lot of food greedily until you are very full: «gorge yourself on cake». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gorge/#m2)

3) (old) Your throat; «it makes my gorge rise» means it makes me feel sick. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gorge/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In geography lessons gorges are made by rivers cutting through rock over a very long time, like Cheddar Gorge in England or the Grand Canyon. In everyday talk «gorge on sweets» means eat too many. Phrases: «gorge on/oneself», «a river gorge».

### examples

- The river runs through a deep gorge. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gorge/#x1)
- We walked along Cheddar Gorge. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gorge/#x2)
- Don't gorge yourself on chocolate before dinner. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gorge/#x3)
- The bears gorged on salmon before winter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gorge/#x4)
- The gorge was so deep we could hardly see the bottom. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gorge/#x5)
- Water carved the gorge over thousands of years. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gorge/#x6)
- When at last he had succeeded, he gorged himself to bursting. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gorge/#x7)

### note

Rhymes with «George». Verb is regular: gorged. Do not confuse with «gorgeous» (beautiful).

### In the corpora

- [The Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze is the biggest power station in the world by power.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/379-china-s-great-rivers-the-finless-porpoise-the-lost-baiji-chinese-alligators-and-sturgeon/20/)
- [The Inca built about 40,000 kilometres of roads with rope bridges over gorges, and relay runners carried messages very fast.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/19-the-aztecs-and-the-inca/15/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «gorge» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gorge/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.