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A canyon's hungrier cousin, carved by water that refused to take no for an answer.
means A narrow, steep-sided valley cut by a river, or — as a verb — to eat greedily until you can barely move.
from From Old French 'gorge,' meaning throat, from Late Latin 'gurges' (whirlpool, gullet). The throat sense came first — to 'gorge' yourself is literally to stuff your throat — and the landscape borrowed the word because a river gorge looks like a throat the earth swallows water through. Same root sits behind 'gargle,' 'regurgitate,' and the 'gorgeous' detour through Old French 'gorgias,' a fancy neck-ruff worn by the elegantly dressed.
- double meaning
- Also means to eat until you regret everything
- deepest
- Yarlung Tsangpo plunges over three miles down
- slow violence
- Rivers grind rock for millions of years
- old roots
- From Latin gurges, meaning throat or whirlpool
grand canyon — 1-mile deep gorge carved by the colorado river in arizona over 6 million years
antelope canyon — narrow slot canyon in arizona with sculpted red sandstone walls, most photographed gorge in the us
zhangjiajie grand canyon — 300-meter deep gorge in hunan province, china, featuring a glass walkway suspended 430 meters above ground