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 →

2) verb To eat a lot of food greedily until you are very full: «gorge yourself on cake». tree →

3) (old) Your throat; «it makes my gorge rise» means it makes me feel sick. tree →

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 →
• We walked along Cheddar Gorge. tree →
• Don't gorge yourself on chocolate before dinner. tree →
• The bears gorged on salmon before winter. tree →
• The gorge was so deep we could hardly see the bottom. tree →
• Water carved the gorge over thousands of years. tree →
• When at last he had succeeded, he gorged himself to bursting. tree →

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.
• The Inca built about 40,000 kilometres of roads with rope bridges over gorges, and relay runners carried messages very fast.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «gorge» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.