GORMANDIZED Synonyms: 29 Similar and Opposite Words

gormandized

verb

past tense of gormandize

as in gorged

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

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

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America’s Poison Centers’s national helpline receives more than 60,000 calls about possible vitamin poisoning every year, mostly from parents alarmed after their children have accidentally gorged on the chewy sweets.

— Cat Rainsford, Popular Science, 23 July 2026
And while fans have been sated by the footballing feast, FIFA and its member associations have gorged on the tournament’s fruits.

— Tom Kludt, Vanity Fair, 17 July 2026

Definition of gorged

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Typically just a minute or two in length, the videos are devoured by Chinese audiences at breakfast, on their morning commutes, during their lunch breaks and on their free time after work — and almost any time in between.

— Ling Wei, Los Angeles Times, 10 Sep. 2026
Readers and critics devoured the book (no pun intended), but their responses often worry Brooks.

— Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 10 Sep. 2026

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The Midcentury Modern library where Rosales first inhaled the aroma of old books has changed.

— Myriam Gurba, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2026
Other critics in Congress have focused on products that can be inhaled and high-potency candy products, as well as the lack of THC caps and testing requirements for those products.

— Brandon Gomez, CNBC, 4 Sep. 2026

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Still, every spare inch is crammed with more than 32 different kinds of orchids imported from around the world, including such beauties as the flame-like Epidendrum radicans and the rare Dimorphorchis lowii.

— Leigh-Ann Jackson, Los Angeles Times, 2 Sep. 2026
Aliens land in Johannesburg in 1982 seeking refuge, but instead they're crammed into an internment camp called District 9.

— Grace Dean, Space.com, 1 Sep. 2026

Definition of crammed

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But Jobs, who scoffed at formal succession planning and kept a tight lid on his company’s operations, did take the issue seriously, corporate governance experts told CNN.

— Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 2 Sep. 2026
In his column, Gigot scoffed at the idea that his readers deserve to know when a piece is chatbot-assisted.

— Will Oremus, The Atlantic, 27 Aug. 2026

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