Synonyms of gobbled

gobbled

verb

past tense of gobble

as in devoured

to swallow or eat greedily

gobbled the sandwiches like they hadn't eaten for days

Synonyms & Similar Words

• devoured
• inhaled
• gulped
• scarfed
• wolfed
• scoffed
• crammed
• glutted
• slopped
• gorged
• bolted
• ravened
• ingurgitated
• swilled
• gormandized
• overate
• pigged out

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• picked
• nibbled
• pecked

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of gobbled

The consumer electronics business is being squeezed by a shortage of memory and storage chips, which are being gobbled up in the AI arms race. — Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 30 July 2026

Young orcas then gobbled up fish fragments that drifted through the water as their elders tore into what was left of the sunfish’s corpse. — Mindy Weisberger, CNN Money, 23 July 2026

Last year, The Studio barged in and gobbled up six nominations; this year, Hacks did the same. — Joe Reid, Vulture, 17 July 2026

Last month, in a move that reverberated through the tech industry, Apple raised prices across nearly all of its product lines in response to the surging costs of memory and storage, which are being gobbled up for AI infrastructure. — Mark Yarm, PC Magazine, 15 July 2026

Deer-Proof Your Garden To keep your flowers from being gobbled up by deer—one of the most heartbreaking of all garden misfortunes—choose flowers that people find glorious and deer find disgusting. — Mary Alice Russell, Southern Living, 13 July 2026

With just two minutes remaining, Lammens parried Pau Cubarsi’s awkward, bouncing 25-yard shot into the path of Mikel Merino, who gobbled up the rebound. — Tim Spiers, New York Times, 11 July 2026

In addition to the vineyard, Soloviev had gobbled up more than 1,000 acres of farmland and announced his intention to build luxury homes on part of the property. — Reeves Wiedeman, Curbed, 22 June 2026

His 40-yard bunker shot was sublime and set up a 6-foot birdie on the 13th hole, the reachable par 4 that moments earlier gobbled up McIlroy and Schauffele. — ABC News, 17 May 2026