as in devouring
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as in gorging
to eat greedily or to excess
everybody tends to gormandize on Thanksgiving—it's traditional!
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as in inhaling
to swallow or eat greedily
hungry soccer players who will gormandize whatever they happen to find in the fridge
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Verb
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Fishing is the largest export in the country, but that doesn’t mean locals aren’t devouring it by the shipful.—
Claire Volkman,
Vogue,
7 Jan. 2025 -
Trackers researchers to flock of vultures raiding a python nest and devouring the eggs.—
Bill Kearney,
Sun Sentinel,
26 Dec. 2024
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Research has also shown that the site was used for feasting and acted as a burial ground for locals and others further afield (like from Wales).—
Christopher McFadden,
Interesting Engineering,
21 Dec. 2024
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Louis spotted three lion cubs, only 18 months old, feasting on a Bushbuck.—
Lucy Edwards,
Condé Nast Traveler,
16 Dec. 2024
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Tanning nasal sprays have entered the illicit tanning market as a way to get a sunless tan by inhaling a squirt of the product through your nose.—
Marisa Garshick,
Verywell Health,
30 Dec. 2024
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The complaint lists numerous cases dating back to 2009 of drivers around the country causing injury and harm after inhaling nitrous oxide.—
Ben Dandridge-Lemco,
Rolling Stone,
29 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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Any evidence that the insatiable fan demand for more NFL games has limits?—
Richard Deitsch,
The Athletic,
25 Feb. 2025
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That’s Nvidia, which has grown to become one of Wall Street’s most influential stocks because of nearly insatiable demand for its chips.—
Stan Choe,
Los Angeles Times,
25 Feb. 2025
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The black, wolfish dog was sentenced to death by the Framingham Police Department after tearing into the arm of the boy next door who came over to pet him.—
Peter Rubin,
Longreads,
4 Oct. 2024
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From the counter of Chez Bebelle, proprietor Gilles Belzons—a large wolfish figure who once played rugby for Narbonne—picks up a megaphone and hollers across to the charcutier opposite.—
Rick Jordan,
Condé Nast Traveler,
16 Dec. 2022
Adjective
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Poles needs to find difference-makers, nasty offensive linemen, game-wrecking defensive linemen, ravenous pass rushers … again, the Bears have a lot of needs.—
Jon Greenberg,
The Athletic,
26 Feb. 2025
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Nonnative invasive species and ravenous deer are killing the nearby trees that are necessary to feed and provide homes for future generations of beavers.—
Carl R. Gold,
Baltimore Sun,
19 Feb. 2025
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Another venerable Caribbean Carnival tradition is the breakfast party, which on paper sounds like bona-fide madness: wake up in the middle of the night, go to a nice venue, drink and dance until the sun rises, eat a gluttonous drunken breakfast, then return home to get back in bed and knock out.—
Baz Dreisinger,
Forbes,
22 Feb. 2025
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Football obstructs transfers One club who didn’t spend much in January by their own gluttonous standards were Chelsea, whose only ‘incomings’ amounted to the arrival of young midfielder Mathis Amougou from Saint-Etienne and a recall for Trevoh Chalabah from his loan spell at Crystal Palace.—
Tim Spiers,
The Athletic,
14 Feb. 2025
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“Gormandizing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gormandizing. Accessed 9 Mar. 2025.
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