MUNCHER Synonyms: 16 Similar and Opposite Words

muncher

noun

Definition of muncher

as in hog

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Recent Examples of muncher Range Rovers have always been focused on world-class four-wheel-drive all-terrain capabilities, but the GT is a much more road-going luxury mile-muncher. — New Atlas, 27 July 2026 Michael Kesselring is a bounce-back candidate that Grier essentially added for nothing to start upgrading an already suspect defense that will lose longtime minutes muncher Mario Ferraro to free agency. — Eric Stephens, New York Times, 28 June 2026

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Noun

In the public imagination, Housewives with a capital H are fame-hungry attention hogs who would rather throw the $400 bottle of Château Brane-Cantenac Margaux that’s sitting in front of us than sip it, as Cosby is hesitantly doing now.

— Brian Moylan, Vulture, 16 Sep. 2026
But both the National Pork Board and the National Pork Producers Council work to protect and expand a hyper-industrial vision of American hog farming.

— Kenny Torrella, Vox, 9 Sep. 2026

Definition of hog

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The organizations' research also found that expanding deforestation linked to biomass production could impact undisturbed forests that serve as critical habitats for vulnerable and endangered species such as tarsiers, endemic buffalo and pigs.

— ABC News, ABC News, 13 Sep. 2026
As of 2025, her farm had five chickens, two cows, a pig, two cats and two dogs.

— Skyler Trepel, PEOPLE, 13 Sep. 2026

Definition of pig

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Jones is a high-end run-stuffer and a critical, under-the-radar leader of the defense.

— Parker Gabriel, Denver Post, 10 Sep. 2026
The only conclusion left to draw is that the famed Portland toolmaker was at least partly inspired by its fellow pocket-stuffers in the lighter industry.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 21 July 2026

Definition of stuffer

Noun

In the latest case, Haggerty and Caroline Petrow-Cohen report for The Times, dozens of dead cormorants washed ashore on Venice Beach.

— Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2026
Brown pelicans, double-crested cormorants, western gulls, and more than two dozen other species stop over on Anacapa.

— Cu Fleshman, Travel + Leisure, 27 Aug. 2026

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