Eat vs. Gorge — What's the Difference?

Put (food) into the mouth and chew and swallow it

A narrow valley between hills or mountains, typically with steep rocky walls and a stream running through it.

Light food or snacks

The throat.

To take into the body by the mouth for digestion or absorption.

A narrow rear entrance to a bastion, outwork, or other fortification.

To take in and absorb as food

A mass of ice obstructing a narrow passage, especially a river.

To include habitually or by preference in one's diet

Eat a large amount greedily; fill oneself with food

To destroy, ravage, or use up by or as if by ingesting

A deep narrow valley with steep rocky sides; a ravine.

To erode or corrode

A narrow entrance into the outwork of a fortification.

To produce by eating

The throat; the gullet

(Slang) To absorb the cost or expense of

The crop of a hawk.

(Informal) To bother or annoy

An instance of gluttonous eating.

Vulgar slang To perform cunnilingus or anilingus on. Often used with out.

The contents of the stomach; something swallowed.

To consume food.

A mass obstructing a narrow passage

To have or take a meal.

The seam on the front of a coat or jacket where the lapel and the collar are joined.

To exercise a consuming or eroding effect

To stuff with food; glut

To cause persistent annoyance or distress

To devour greedily.

To ingest; to be ingested.

To eat gluttonously.

(ambitransitive) To consume (something solid or semi-solid, usually food) by putting it into the mouth and swallowing it.

(archaic) The front aspect of the neck; the outside of the throat.

(intransitive) To consume a meal.

The inside of the throat; the esophagus, the gullet; the crop or gizzard of a hawk.

To be eaten.

Food that has been taken into the gullet or the stomach, particularly if it is regurgitated or vomited out.

To have a particular quality of diet; to be well-fed or underfed (typically as "eat healthy" or "eat good").

(US) A choking or filling of a channel or passage by an obstruction; the obstruction itself.

To use up.

(architectural element) A concave moulding; a cavetto.

To destroy, consume, or use up.

The rearward side of an outwork, a bastion, or a fort, often open, or not protected against artillery; a narrow entry passage into the outwork of an enclosed fortification.

To consume (an exception, an event, etc.) so that other parts of the program do not receive it.

(fishing) A primitive device used instead of a hook to catch fish, consisting of an object that is easy to swallow but difficult to eject or loosen, such as a piece of bone or stone pointed at each end and attached in the middle to a line.

To damage, destroy, or fail to eject a removable part or an inserted object.

(geography) A deep, narrow passage with steep, rocky sides, particularly one with a stream running through it; a ravine.

To consume money (or other instruments of value, such as a token) deposited or inserted by a user, while failing to either provide the intended product or service or return the payment.

(mechanical engineering) The groove of a pulley.

To cause (someone) to worry.

An act of gorging.

To take the loss in a transaction.

To stuff the gorge or gullet with food; to eat greedily and in large quantities. on

To be injured or killed by (something such as a firearm or its projectile), especially in the mouth.

(transitive) To swallow, especially with greediness, or in large mouthfuls or quantities.

(ambitransitive) To corrode or erode.

(transitive) To fill up to the throat; to glut, to satiate.

To perform oral sex (on a person or body part).

(transitive) To fill up (an organ, a vein, etc.); to block up or obstruct; of ice: to choke or fill a channel or passage, causing an obstruction.

To be very good; to rule; to rock.

(slang) Gorgeous.

(colloquial) Something to be eaten; a meal; a food item.

The throat; the gullet; the canal by which food passes to the stomach.

To chew and swallow as food; to devour; - said especially of food not liquid; as, to eat bread.

A narrow passage or entrance

To corrode, as metal, by rust; to consume the flesh, as a cancer; to waste or wear away; to destroy gradually; to cause to disappear.

That which is gorged or swallowed, especially by a hawk or other fowl.

To take food; to feed; especially, to take solid, in distinction from liquid, food; to board.

A filling or choking of a passage or channel by an obstruction; as, an ice gorge in a river.

To taste or relish; as, it eats like tender beef.

A concave molding; a cavetto.

To make one's way slowly.

The groove of a pulley.

Take in solid food;

A primitive device used instead of a fishhook, consisting of an object easy to be swallowed but difficult to be ejected or loosened, as a piece of bone or stone pointed at each end and attached in the middle to a line.

Eat a meal; take a meal;

To swallow; especially, to swallow with greediness, or in large mouthfuls or quantities.

Take in food; used of animals only;

To glut; to fill up to the throat; to satiate.

Use up (resources or materials);

To eat greedily and to satiety.

Worry or cause anxiety in a persistent way;

A deep ravine (usually with a river running through it)

Cause to deteriorate due to the action of water, air, or an acid;

A narrow pass (especially one between mountains)

The passage between the pharynx and the stomach

Overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself;