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Gorge

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

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Broader term 7

Eat 76% connected

of Eat

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Musculature 76% connected

Musculation.

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Notch 76% connected

A hollow cut in anything; a nick; an indentation.

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Pass 76% connected

To go; to move; to proceed; to be moved or transferred from one point to another; to make a transit; -- usually with a following adverb or adverbal p…

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Passage 76% connected

The act of passing; transit from one place to another; movement from point to point; a going by, over, across, or through; as, the passage of a man o…

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Passageway 76% connected

A way for passage; a hall. See Passage, 5.

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Ravine 76% connected

Food obtained by violence; plunder; prey; raven.

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Narrower term 2

Flume 76% connected

A stream; especially, a passage channel, or conduit for the water that drives a mill wheel; or an artifical channel of water for hydraulic or placer…

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Gulch 76% connected

Act of gulching or gulping.

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Bust 74% connected

A piece of sculpture representing the upper part of the human figure, including the head, shoulders, and breast.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Bust 74% connected

A piece of sculpture representing the upper part of the human figure, including the head, shoulders, and breast.

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Synonym 13

Defile 92% connected

To march off in a line, file by file; to file off.

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Englut 92% connected

To swallow or gulp down.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Engorge 92% connected

To gorge; to glut.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Esophagus 92% connected

That part of the alimentary canal between the pharynx and the stomach; the gullet. See Illust. of Digestive apparatus, under Digestive.

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Glut 92% connected

To swallow, or to swallow greedlly; to gorge.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Gormandize 92% connected

To eat greedily; to swallow voraciously; to feed ravenously or like a glutton.

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Gullet 92% connected

The tube by which food and drink are carried from the pharynx to the stomach; the esophagus.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Ingurgitate 92% connected

To swallow, devour, or drink greedily or in large quantity; to guzzle.

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Oesophagus 92% connected

Alt. of Oesophageal

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Overeat 92% connected

To gnaw all over, or on all sides.

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Overgorge 92% connected

To gorge to excess.

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Satiate 92% connected

Filled to satiety; glutted; sated; -- followed by with or of.

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Stuff 92% connected

Material which is to be worked up in any process of manufacture.

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