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Gorge vs. Gouge — What's the Difference?

Gorge vs. Gouge — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Gorge and Gouge

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Gorge

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

Gouge

A chisel with a blade that has a rounded, angled, or troughlike indentation along its length.

Gorge

The throat.

Gouge

A scooping or digging action, as with such a chisel.

Gorge

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

A groove or hole scooped with or as if with such a chisel.

Gorge

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

Gouge

(Informal) A large amount, as of money, exacted or extorted.

Gorge

Eat a large amount greedily; fill oneself with food
They gorged themselves on Cornish cream teas

Gouge

To cut or scoop out with or as if with a gouge
"He began to gouge a small pattern in the sand with his cane" (Vladimir Nabokov).

Gorge

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

Gouge

To force out the eye of (a person) with one's thumb.

Gorge

A narrow entrance into the outwork of a fortification.

Gouge

To thrust one's thumb into the eye of.

Gorge

The throat; the gullet
The gory sight made my gorge rise.

Gouge

(Informal) To extort from.

Gorge

The crop of a hawk.

Gouge

(Slang) To swindle.

Gorge

An instance of gluttonous eating.

Gouge

Senses relating to cutting tools.

Gorge

The contents of the stomach; something swallowed.

Gouge

A chisel with a curved blade for cutting or scooping channels, grooves, or holes in wood, stone, etc.

Gorge

A mass obstructing a narrow passage
A shipping lane blocked by an ice gorge.

Gouge

A bookbinder's tool with a curved face, used for blind tooling or gilding.

Gorge

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

Gouge

An incising tool that cuts blanks or forms for envelopes, gloves, etc., from leather, paper, or other materials.

Gorge

To stuff with food; glut
Gorged themselves with candy.

Gouge

A cut or groove, as left by a gouge or something sharp.
The nail left a deep gouge in the tire.

Gorge

To devour greedily.

Gouge

An act of gouging.

Gorge

To eat gluttonously.

Gouge

(slang) A cheat, a fraud; an imposition.

Gorge

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

Gouge

(slang) An impostor.

Gorge

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

Gouge

(mining) Soft material lying between the wall of a vein and the solid vein of ore.

Gorge

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

Gouge

Information.

Gorge

(US) A choking or filling of a channel or passage by an obstruction; the obstruction itself.
An ice gorge in a river

Gouge

(transitive) To make a groove, hole, or mark in by scooping with or as if with a gouge.
Japanese and Chinese printers used to gouge characters in wood.

Gorge

(architectural element) A concave moulding; a cavetto.

Gouge

(transitive) To cheat or impose upon; in particular, to charge an unfairly or unreasonably high price.
The company has no competition, so it tends to gouge its customers.

Gorge

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.

Gouge

To dig or scoop (something) out with or as if with a gouge; in particular, to use a thumb to push or try to push the eye (of a person) out of its socket.

Gorge

(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.

Gouge

(intransitive) To use a gouge.

Gorge

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

Gouge

A chisel, with a hollow or semicylindrical blade, for scooping or cutting holes, channels, or grooves, in wood, stone, etc.; a similar instrument, with curved edge, for turning wood.

Gorge

(mechanical engineering) The groove of a pulley.

Gouge

A bookbinder's tool for blind tooling or gilding, having a face which forms a curve.

Gorge

An act of gorging.

Gouge

An incising tool which cuts forms or blanks for gloves, envelopes, etc. from leather, paper, etc.

Gorge

To stuff the gorge or gullet with food; to eat greedily and in large quantities. on
They gorged themselves on chocolate and cake.

Gouge

Soft material lying between the wall of a vein and the solid vein.

Gorge

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

Gouge

The act of scooping out with a gouge, or as with a gouge; a groove or cavity scooped out, as with a gouge.

Gorge

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

Gouge

Imposition; cheat; fraud; also, an impostor; a cheat; a trickish person.

Gorge

(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.

Gouge

An impression in a surface (as made by a blow)

Gorge

(slang) Gorgeous.
Oh, look at him: isn’t he gorge?

Gouge

And edge tool with a blade like a trough for cutting channels or grooves

Gorge

The throat; the gullet; the canal by which food passes to the stomach.
Wherewith he gripped her gorge with so great pain.
Now, how abhorred! . . . my gorge rises at it.

Gouge

The act of gouging

Gorge

A narrow passage or entrance

Gouge

Force with the thumb;
Gouge out his eyes

Gorge

That which is gorged or swallowed, especially by a hawk or other fowl.
And all the way, most like a brutish beast,e spewed up his gorge, that all did him detest.

Gouge

Obtain by coercion or intimidation;
They extorted money from the executive by threatening to reveal his past to the company boss
They squeezed money from the owner of the business by threatening him

Gorge

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

Gouge

Make a groove in

Gorge

A concave molding; a cavetto.

Gorge

The groove of a pulley.

Gorge

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.

Gorge

To swallow; especially, to swallow with greediness, or in large mouthfuls or quantities.
The fish has gorged the hook.

Gorge

To glut; to fill up to the throat; to satiate.
The giant gorged with flesh.
Gorge with my blood thy barbarous appetite.

Gorge

To eat greedily and to satiety.

Gorge

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

Gorge

A narrow pass (especially one between mountains)

Gorge

The passage between the pharynx and the stomach

Gorge

Overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself;
She stuffed herself at the dinner
The kids binged on icecream

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