as in to inhale
to swallow or eat greedily with no time for fine dining, we just ingurgitated our food and went on our way

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Verb
  • Instead, lie on your back and do 10 rounds of 4-7-8 breathing (inhaling for four seconds, holding it for seven and exhaling for eight).
    Amanda Schupak, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2025
  • As Palisades Fire Expands East Critical Warning For 100 Million Apple Users—New Hack Attack Confirmed In addition, the particles can be inhaled deep into the lungs, causing lung injury resulting in shortness of breath, chest pain and wheezing.
    Omer Awan, Forbes, 11 Jan. 2025
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  • That work will doubtlessly continue, and will continue to be devoured by fans who stand by him.
    Glen Weldon, NPR, 18 Jan. 2025
  • This infrastructure is under threat from fires that could devour these landscapes that capture, filter and deliver water to one-quarter of Coloradans.
    Alan Salazar, The Denver Post, 16 Jan. 2025
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  • In a state of unimaginable desperation, Islam and his family would also turn to water, gulping it in desperate attempts to fill their stomachs.
    Daphne Ewing-Chow, Forbes, 5 Jan. 2025
  • But being exposed to an ambient, low-level dose of germs is very different from gulping down a concentrated slug of them.
    Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 20 Dec. 2024
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  • There’s a complete lack of self-consciousness in Mother’s wolfing down handfuls of meatloaf or playfully woofing at strangers in public, and that’s matched by what Adams is doing to bring this woman to life.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 6 Dec. 2024
  • In 2019, one edition that sold for $190,000 at Art Basel Miami was wolfed down by performance artist David Datuna.
    George Nelson, ARTnews.com, 29 Nov. 2024
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“Ingurgitate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ingurgitate. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.

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