1
as in to gorge
to eat greedily or to excess everybody tends to gormandize on Thanksgiving—it's traditional!

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2
as in to devour
to swallow or eat greedily hungry soccer players who will gormandize whatever they happen to find in the fridge

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  • Chief among them is that kids have been gorging on Kit-Kats and Starbursts for decades, on this one day a year.
    Melissa Willets, Parents, 7 Oct. 2025
  • The bears have been trying to fatten up by gorging on salmon — including at times by only eating the skin, brains and eggs to focus on the most calories — before hibernating for the winter.
    Phil Helsel, NBC news, 1 Oct. 2025
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  • There are other predators just waiting to devour us.
    Bea L. Hines, Miami Herald, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Angelo’s is the lunch stop and Strowman devoured ribs, brisket and more smoked meats, restaurant owner Jason George told the Star-Telegram.
    Brayden Garcia, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 24 Oct. 2025
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  • Toronto taxed Snell, the two-time Cy Young award winner, and expelled him from the game in the sixth, feasting on his underwhelming replacements.
    Andy McCullough, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2025
  • Melissa is expected to feast on that deep reservoir of heat, raising the ceiling on its potential intensity.
    Chris Dolce, CNN Money, 25 Oct. 2025
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  • Health and Safety Concerns Proper ventilation is vital when using bleach because bleach fumes can be harmful if inhaled.
    Daley Quinn, Southern Living, 1 Nov. 2025
  • Competitive freediving events demand that participants inhale nothing but normal air prior to a dive.
    Sean Williams, Outside, 27 Oct. 2025
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  • What's more, while virtually all VTOLs being developed these days are electric, the Janus-1 is powered by a turboshaft engine that gulps n' burns diesel, kerosene or Jet A fuel.
    Ben Coxworth October 21, New Atlas, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Perhaps a whale or a shark would arrive to gulp down the passengers, one by one.
    Catherine Lacey, New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2025
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“Gormandize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gormandize. Accessed 5 Nov. 2025.

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