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How to pronounce “gorge”

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Learning goal: Practice the English pronunciation of gorge with real speech in context.
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Real speech example: #! Computer Generated PoetrySo I wrote this next poem, "Taroko Gorge,"
Definition summary: (archaic) The front aspect of the neck; the outside of the throat.

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How to pronounce gorge

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So I wrote this next poem, "Taroko Gorge,"

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Meaning

[Noun]
(archaic) The front aspect of the neck; the outside of the throat.
(archaic, literary) The inside of the throat; the esophagus, the gullet; (falconry, specifically) the crop or gizzard of a hawk.
(botany) The throat of a flower.
Food that has been taken into the gullet or the stomach, particularly if it is regurgitated or vomited out.
(US) A choking or filling of a channel or passage by an obstruction; the obstruction itself.
(architecture) A concave moulding; a cavetto.
(architecture, military, fortification) 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.
(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.
(geography) A deep, narrow passage with steep, rocky sides, particularly one with a stream running through it; a ravine.
(mechanical engineering) The groove of a pulley.
(heraldry, usually in the plural) A whirlpool used as a heraldic charge.
[Verb]
(intransitive, reflexive) To stuff the gorge or gullet with food; to eat greedily and in large quantities. [with on]
(transitive) To swallow, especially with greediness, or in large mouthfuls or quantities.
(transitive) To fill up to the throat; to glut, to satiate.
(transitive) 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.

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How to pronounce “gorge”

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How to pronounce gorge

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So I wrote this next poem, "Taroko Gorge,"

In fact the hardest thing that I had to write about in "Gorge"

Many people have heard of Olduvai Gorge.

geese and ducks gorge on food

Well, then you have to say like Red Rocks, or The Gorge

In the Columbia Gorge, Columbia River Gorge, Horsetail Falls,

gorge in the center of Afghanistan

his men would gorge themselves

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