What is another word for gorge?

Pronunciation: [ɡˈɔːd͡ʒ] (IPA)

Gorge is a word that has several synonyms. One commonly used synonym is "canyon," which refers to a deep, narrow valley with steep sides. "Ravine" is another synonym that can be used to describe a deep and narrow gorge, often with steep walls. "Gulch" refers to a narrow and steep-sided ravine or gorge formed by running water or a stream. "Chasm" is a synonym that describes a deep, narrow opening in the ground, often caused by geological movements. "Gully" is another synonym that can be used to describe a narrow and steep-sided channel, often formed by running water. Therefore, depending on the context, there are several synonyms for the word "gorge" that can be used to add variety and color to one's writing.

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  • Forward Entailment

    • Proper noun, singular
      valley.
  • Independent

  • Other Related

    • Proper noun, singular
      throat, kodori, pankisi.

What are the hypernyms for Gorge?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.
  • hypernyms for gorge (as nouns)

What are the hyponyms for Gorge?

Hyponyms are more specific words categorized under a broader term, known as a hypernym.
  • hyponyms for gorge (as nouns)

What are the opposite words for gorge?

The antonyms for the word "gorge" are plain, flat, defile, chasm, valley, and canyon. While the term gorge is defined as a narrow passage between two rocks or hills, the antonyms represent the opposite nature of gorge. A plain is a vast expanse of flat land with no hills or valleys. A flat land lies entirely flat without any elevated terrain. A chasm is a deep, broad opening in the earth's surface. Conversely, a valley is defined as a low area between hills, while a canyon refers to a deep ravine usually with a river or stream flowing through it. The antonyms for "gorge" help to provide a clear and vivid description of the landscape.

What are the antonyms for Gorge?

Usage examples for Gorge

Let us follow that rider, then, who now, quitting the bleak shore, has entered a deep gorge between the mountain.
"The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II)"
Charles James Lever
After a hard pull, ascending miniature, ice-covered hills, winding about big, polished boulders, we entered a wider section of the narrow gorge-like valley.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook
We searched the gorge with our glasses.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook

Famous quotes with Gorge

  • Alas, poor Yorick I knew him, Horatio a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. He hath borne me on his back a thousand times and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is my gorge rises at it. Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now your gambols, your songs your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar Not one now, to mock your own grinning Quite chap-fallen Now get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favour she must come.
    William Shakespeare
  • What had become of his dream of idylls, his gentle bookish romance? Vanished before a reality which smacked horribly of crude melodrama and possibly of sordid crime. His gorge rose at the picture, but a thought troubled him. Perhaps all romance in its hour of happening was rough and ugly like this, and only shone rosy in the retrospect. Was he being false to his deepest faith?
    John Buchan
  • Between the crowded houses of Gravesend and the monstrous red-brick pile on the Essex shore the ship is surrendered fairly to the grasp of the river. That hint of loneliness, that soul of the sea which had accompanied her as far as the Lower Hope Reach, abandons her at the turn of the first bend above. The salt, acrid flavour is gone out of the air, together with a sense of unlimited space opening free beyond the threshold of sandbanks below the Nore. The waters of the sea rush on past Gravesend, tumbling the big mooring buoys laid along the face of the town; but the sea-freedom stops short there, surrendering the salt tide to the needs, the artifices, the contrivances of toiling men. Wharves, landing-places, dock-gates, waterside stairs, follow each other continuously right up to London Bridge, and the hum of men’s work fills the river with a menacing, muttering note as of a breathless, ever-driving gale. The water-way, so fair above and wide below, flows oppressed by bricks and mortar and stone, by blackened timber and grimed glass and rusty iron, covered with black barges, whipped up by paddles and screws, overburdened with craft, overhung with chains, overshadowed by walls making a steep gorge for its bed, filled with a haze of smoke and dust.
    Joseph Conrad
  • Twenty kilometers. At an average speed of 120 klicks per hour, we should cover the distance in ten minutes. Ten freezing, adrenaline-pumping, gorge-rising, terror-beating-against-the-ribs, react-in-a-microsecond-or-die seconds.
    Dan Simmons

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