as in to inhale
to swallow or eat greedily with no time for fine dining, we just ingurgitated our food and went on our way

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Verb
  • Simply inhaling for four counts and exhaling for four counts brings oxygen to your muscles, reducing the emotion's intensity and relaxing the body.
    Juli Fraga, CNBC, 24 Sep. 2025
  • Medicines needing to be inhaled or smoked are prohibited unless in a prescribed inhaler.
    Ed Masley, AZCentral.com, 23 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The Fujiwhara effect kicked in, and Hinnamnor and the depression interacted and rotated until the typhoon devoured the depression.
    Mary Gilbert, CNN Money, 25 Sep. 2025
  • That’s almost the scale of electricity that Sam Altman and his partners say will be devoured by their next wave of AI data centers—a single corporate project consuming more power, every single day, than two American cities pushed to their breaking point.
    Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 24 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • So the 46,000 at the Stadium of Light gulped again.
    Michael Walker, New York Times, 22 Sep. 2025
  • 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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  • Other dogs wolf it down in a matter of seconds, but sometimes eating too fast can make your dog sick.
    Cody Godwin, USA Today, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Wednesday reunites with Enid, who is part of the pack now that she’s fully wolfed out.
    Jessica M. Goldstein, Vulture, 6 Aug. 2025
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“Ingurgitate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ingurgitate. Accessed 2 Oct. 2025.

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