The difference between Cloy and Gorge

When used as verbs, cloy means to fill up or choke up, whereas gorge means to stuff the gorge or gullet with food.


Gorge is also noun with the meaning: the front aspect of the neck.

Gorge is also adjective with the meaning: gorgeous.

check bellow for the other definitions of Cloy and Gorge

  1. Cloy as a verb (transitive):

    To fill up or choke up; to stop up.

  2. Cloy as a verb (transitive):

    To clog, to glut, or satisfy, as the appetite; to satiate.

  3. Cloy as a verb (transitive):

    To fill to loathing; to surfeit.

  1. Gorge as a noun (archaic):

    The front aspect of the neck; the outside of the throat.

  2. Gorge as a noun (archaic, literary):

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

  3. Gorge as a noun:

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

  4. Gorge as a noun (US):

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

    Examples:

    "an ice gorge in a river"

  5. Gorge as a noun (architectural element):

    A concave moulding; a cavetto.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Gwilt"

  6. Gorge as a noun (architectural element, [[fortification]]):

    The entrance to an outwork, such as a bastion.

  7. Gorge as a noun (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.

  8. Gorge as a noun (geography):

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

    Examples:

    "synonyms canyon"

  9. Gorge as a noun (mechanical engineering):

    The groove of a pulley.

  1. Gorge as a verb (intransitive, reflexive):

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

    Examples:

    "They gorged themselves on chocolate and cake."

  2. Gorge as a verb (transitive):

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

  3. Gorge as a verb (transitive):

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

    Examples:

    "synonyms sate stuff"

  4. Gorge as a verb (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.

    Examples:

    "synonyms engorge"

  1. Gorge as a noun:

    An act of gorging.

  1. Gorge as an adjective (slang):

    Gorgeous.

    Examples:

    "Oh, look at him: isn’t he gorge?"