gorge vs surfeit

gorge

verb
  • To swallow, especially with greediness, or in large mouthfuls or quantities. 

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

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

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

adj
  • Gorgeous. 

noun
  • 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. 

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

  • The groove of a pulley. 

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

  • A choking or filling of a channel or passage by an obstruction; the obstruction itself. 

  • 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. 

  • An act of gorging. 

  • A concave moulding; a cavetto. 

surfeit

verb
  • To satisfy (someone's appetite) to excess (both literally and figuratively). 

  • To fill (something) to excess. 

  • To supply (someone) with something to excess; to disgust (someone) through overabundance. 

  • To overeat or feed to excess (on or upon something). 

  • To indulge (in something) to excess. 

  • To feed (someone) to excess (on, upon or with something). 

  • To become sick from overindulgence (both literally and figuratively). 

  • To make (someone) sick as a result of overconsumption. 

noun
  • Disgust caused by excess; satiety. 

  • A group of skunks. 

  • A sickness or condition caused by overindulgence. 

  • Overindulgence in either food or drink; overeating. 

  • An excessive amount of something. 

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