voragon.

/vɒˈreɪɡəʊ/

Forms: Also 1800s vorrago.

Etymology: < Latin vorāgo, < vorāre to devour. Compare vorage n.

Now rare.

An abyss, gulf, or chasm.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > whirlpool > [noun]

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the world > the earth > land > landscape > low land > hole or pit > [noun] > abyss

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1654 J. Howell in S. Lennard tr. S. Mazzella Parthenopoeia To Rdr. sig. A2^v The great Vorago or fiery Gulph..which rageth in the head of that Mountain [Vesuvius].

1656 S. Hunton Golden Law 91 Earth~quakes, Chasmaes, and Voragoes were at his command.

1669 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 4 1028 The top of Ætna must about the same time have sunk down into its old Vorago or hole.

figurative.1836 W. S. Landor Imaginary Conversat. in Examiner 21 Aug. 531/1 Adultery and concubinage did you mention? Another vorrago, two vorragoes, Sylla and Charybdis, of national wealth.1895 J. J. Raven Hist. Suffolk 151 Five years more, and Blythburgh Priory perishes in the general vorago.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1920; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

单词	vorago
释义	voragon. /vɒˈreɪɡəʊ/ Forms: Also 1800s vorrago. Etymology: < Latin vorāgo, < vorāre to devour. Compare vorage n. Now rare. An abyss, gulf, or chasm. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > whirlpool > [noun] swallowa700 weelc897 suckc1220 swallowinga1387 swelthc1400 swirlc1425 gorce1480 vorage1490 whirlpool1530 gourd1538 gulf1538 poolc1540 hurlpool1552 whirlpit1564 sea-gulf1571 maelstrom1588 vorago1654 well1654 gurges1664 gurge1667 swelchiea1688 vortex1704 tourbillion1712 whirly-pool1727 wheel-pit1828 sea-puss1839 turn-hole1851 suck-hole1909 the world > the earth > land > landscape > low land > hole or pit > [noun] > abyss swallowa700 deepnessa1000 deep1393 abysmc1475 dungeonc1475 depth1523 gulfa1533 downfall1542 hell-kettle1577 abysmus1611 vorago1654 under-abyss1662 purgatory1766 fosse1805 jaw-hole1840 1654 J. Howell in S. Lennard tr. S. Mazzella Parthenopoeia To Rdr. sig. A2^v The great Vorago or fiery Gulph..which rageth in the head of that Mountain [Vesuvius]. 1656 S. Hunton Golden Law 91 Earth~quakes, Chasmaes, and Voragoes were at his command. 1669 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 4 1028 The top of Ætna must about the same time have sunk down into its old Vorago or hole. figurative.1836 W. S. Landor Imaginary Conversat. in Examiner 21 Aug. 531/1 Adultery and concubinage did you mention? Another vorrago, two vorragoes, Sylla and Charybdis, of national wealth.1895 J. J. Raven Hist. Suffolk 151 Five years more, and Blythburgh Priory perishes in the general vorago. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1920; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1654
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