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as in gorging
to eat greedily or to excess
everybody tends to gormandize on Thanksgiving—it's traditional!
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as in inhaling
to swallow or eat greedily
hungry soccer players who will gormandize whatever they happen to find in the fridge
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as in devouring
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for gormandizing
Verb
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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 -
Scheming girlfriends, questionable business partners, a fleet of lawyers and consultants gorging themselves on fees and a whole lot of other jockeying around Sumner Redstone’s fortune and his business empire.—
Cynthia Littleton,
Variety,
10 Aug. 2025
Verb
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Outdoor spiders are hard at work, devouring home and garden pests such as ants, flies, mosquitoes, aphids, and thrips.—
Arricca Elin SanSone,
Southern Living,
11 Oct. 2025
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Gwyneth Paltrow and Odessa A’zion are exquisite in their supporting roles, devouring every morsel of the Safdie and Ronald Bronstein script.—
Clayton Davis,
Variety,
9 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Government must control their insatiable appetite for spending.—
Eleanor Dearman,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
13 Oct. 2025
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Trump’s insatiable thirst for revenge.—
Ruth Marcus,
New Yorker,
12 Oct. 2025
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Jacksonville is feasting on an unsustainable amount of defensive takeaways.—
Greg Cote
October 9,
Miami Herald,
9 Oct. 2025
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But in previous work, scientists analyzing the DNA found in bat poop had been surprised to find evidence of greater noctules feasting on songbirds—which are much larger than insects—during spring and fall migrations, when birds are active at night instead of during the day.—
Meghan Bartels,
Scientific American,
9 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Miners argue increased subjection to the dust has led to an eruption of black lung, an incurable disease associated with inhaling the particles.—
Sasha Rogelberg,
Fortune,
14 Oct. 2025
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Amy Louise Leonard, 20, a makeup artist from Greater Manchester in England, lost the ability to walk for three weeks after inhaling a balloon filled with nitrous oxide, commonly called laughing gas.—
Cara Lynn Shultz,
PEOPLE,
10 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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The black, wolfish dog was sentenced to death by the Framingham Police Department after tearing into the arm of the boy next door who came over to pet him.—
Peter Rubin,
Longreads,
4 Oct. 2024
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From the counter of Chez Bebelle, proprietor Gilles Belzons—a large wolfish figure who once played rugby for Narbonne—picks up a megaphone and hollers across to the charcutier opposite.—
Rick Jordan,
Condé Nast Traveler,
16 Dec. 2022
Verb
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One night Icarius got all his friends together for a wine-tasting party that quickly got out of hand and turned into a wine-gulping party.—
Mike Lynch,
Twin Cities,
7 Sep. 2025
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The pressure is always on the taker, the player standing, gulping, trying desperately not to unload their lunch onto the turf, preparing to do something theoretically simple — kick the ball into the net from 12 yards with only one opponent able to stop them.—
Nick Miller,
New York Times,
4 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Those ravenous fans still gave it a rare A+ CinemaScore, naturally, which is certainly kinder than some music critics were to the album itself.—
Brian Welk,
IndieWire,
6 Oct. 2025
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But few of the directors who would join V/H/S over the years that followed introduced a more memorable creature — a birdlike demon who oscillates from purring affection to ravenous rage — or so skillfully tracked the running bodies captured by a running camera.—
A.A. Dowd,
Vulture,
3 Oct. 2025
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“Gormandizing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gormandizing. Accessed 19 Oct. 2025.
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