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gorging

/gawrj/US // gɔrdʒ //UK // (ɡɔːdʒ) //

大吃大喝,大快朵颐,大吃特吃,大吃大喝的

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n.名词 noun
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    • : a narrow cleft with steep, rocky walls, especially one through which a stream runs.
    • : a small canyon.
    • : a gluttonous meal.
    • : something that is swallowed; contents of the stomach.
    • : an obstructing mass: an ice gorge.
    • : the seam formed at the point where the lapel meets the collar of a jacket or coat.
    • : Fortification. the rear entrance or part of a bastion or similar outwork.
    • : Also called gorge hook . a primitive type of fishhook consisting of a piece of stone or bone with sharpened ends and a hole or groove in the center for fastening a line.
    • : the throat; gullet.
v.有主动词 verb
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    gorged, gorg·ing.

    • : to stuff with food: He gorged himself. They were gorged.
    • : to swallow, especially greedily.
    • : to choke up.
v.无主动词 verb
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    gorged, gorg·ing.

    • : to eat greedily.

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Examples

  • Decades ago there were 30 different rafting companies running trips inside in the gorge and nearby Gauley River.

  • Gorging on House of Cards all at once is solitary and over all too soon.

  • You have taken to gnawing on dried pasta, the only thing left in your larder after days of gorging.

  • Reduce the chance of gorging on high-calorie snacks because you skipped a meal.

  • Rather, eating fried chicken showed them getting above their station--gorging on luxury foods.

  • There is a distinct difference between gorging and slowly savoring a meal.

  • But near shore there was just one trout who never stopped gorging all day.

  • Meanwhile the Cockalorum is gorging himself with information.

  • We saw several dead ones, crushed out almost flat, and some skuas were busily engaged gorging themselves on the carcases.

  • Suddenly a lioness stole out of the bushes, her mouth bloody with the recent gorging of oxen, and slunk down to the pool to drink.

  • There they stood gorging when we started along the ice-belt of the stream towards the south-west.