- a deep narrow valley with steep sides synonym canyon
- the Rhine Gorge
Extra ExamplesTopics Geographyc1- Cheddar Gorge
- This is an area of spectacular gorges and jagged cliffs.
Word OriginMiddle English (as a verb): from Old French gorger, from gorge ‘throat’, based on Latin gurges ‘whirlpool’. The noun originally meant ‘throat’ and is from Old French gorge; the current noun sense dates from the mid 18th cent.
Idioms
See gorge in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionarysomebody’s gorge rises
- (formal) somebody feels so angry about something that they feel physically sick
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