as in to consume
to eat (something) especially in a noisy way
We munched popcorn during the movie. cattle munching grass
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Applying a top dressing of compost in autumn after planting works well.
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Besides deer, which are notorious for munching on tulips, squirrels and other rodents can dig up tulip bulbs and stash them for a midwinter snack.
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Andy Wilcox, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Oct. 2024
The researchers concluded that a white shark or shortfin mako shark must have munched on their pregnant porbeagle and ingested the tag temporarily.
—Evan Bush, NBC News, 3 Sep. 2024
Parrotfish to the rescue The life of a parrotfish mostly consists of munching on rocks and dead corals, grinding it into sand, and releasing it through their rear ends.
—Benji Jones, Vox, 8 Oct. 2024
The Vice President—clad in a Howard University sweatshirt, munching pizza with anchovies—spent the next 10 hours on the phone, dialing delegates and wrangling endorsements.
—Charlotte Alter/philadelphia, TIME, 12 Aug. 2024
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Andy Wilcox, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Oct. 2024
The researchers concluded that a white shark or shortfin mako shark must have munched on their pregnant porbeagle and ingested the tag temporarily.
—Evan Bush, NBC News, 3 Sep. 2024
Parrotfish to the rescue The life of a parrotfish mostly consists of munching on rocks and dead corals, grinding it into sand, and releasing it through their rear ends.
—Benji Jones, Vox, 8 Oct. 2024
The Vice President—clad in a Howard University sweatshirt, munching pizza with anchovies—spent the next 10 hours on the phone, dialing delegates and wrangling endorsements.
—Charlotte Alter/philadelphia, TIME, 12 Aug. 2024
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If necessary, vampire bats can gorge and consume four times their body weight in liquid.Mack DeGeurin, Popular Science, 7 Nov. 2024
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Koalas spend most of their time sleeping and eating — consuming a diet mostly of eucalyptus leaves.Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 6 Nov. 2024
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But those seeking restraint and something more clever than the usual carnage will find this talky (in a good way) creeper offers more to chew on than the genre norm.Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 6 Nov. 2024
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From its very first episode, Agatha All Along went to great lengths to show us that, even with WandaVision’s lead killed off in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, there was still plenty of — and perhaps too much — meat for Kathryn Hahn’s Agatha Harkness to chew on.Charles Pulliam-Moore, The Verge, 1 Nov. 2024
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The grounds attract other wildlife too, like warthogs who try to snack on leftover giraffe pellets.Catherine Garcia, theweek, 5 Nov. 2024
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With an array of traditional plates and even a charcuterie add-on (for those eager to snack before the big meal), this department store is your one-stop shop for your spread this year.Sharon Greenthal, Better Homes & Gardens, 29 Oct. 2024
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Nomi Malone licking the stripper pole in Showgirls?Lily Burana, Rolling Stone, 4 Nov. 2024
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In the series premiere, Rio licked Agatha’s hand in a sapphic (and slightly blood-play oriented) moment of intimacy, and the two also had an almost-kiss at the end of episode four.Quispe López, Them, 31 Oct. 2024
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In the thin air, his face goes hot and his body cold; his heart pounds, and his favorite cigar tastes like cardboard.George Packer, The Atlantic, 5 Nov. 2024
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Nearly black in color, the butter is crowded with chunks of roasted garlic and what tastes like sweet black garlic.Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2024
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In Scottish folklore, the kelpie is a shape-shifting creature that lives underwater and can easily devour humans.Catherine Garcia, theweek, 31 Oct. 2024
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Styled as Pac-Man, the figure is depicted on the verge of devouring a blue dot.R. Daniel Foster, Forbes, 26 Oct. 2024
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“Munch.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/munch. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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