scarfed

past tense of scarf
as in devoured
to swallow or eat greedily the college students scarfed the entire contents of the care package in one sitting

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  • At its heart, Stranger Things is an homage to the iconic Steven Spielberg movies and Stephen King novels that Matt and Ross Duffer devoured growing up.
    Eliana Dockterman, Time, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Smith, the charity board member, stands in between the long blades of grass that have grown back where blazing fires devoured everything in its path just a year ago.
    Alaa Elassar, CNN Money, 1 Oct. 2025
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  • Its use was banned in many countries around the turn of the millennium amid concerns that the fibers, when airborne, could result in potentially fatal lung diseases if inhaled.
    Jack Beresford, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Previous research has found that TCE, when inhaled or ingested, can easily cross the blood-brain barrier and cause damage to neurons.
    Melissa Rudy, FOXNews.com, 6 Oct. 2025
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  • So the 46,000 at the Stadium of Light gulped again.
    Michael Walker, New York Times, 22 Sep. 2025
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  • Because there were only seven minutes left in the game, however, the 49ers quarterback instead gobbled three bananas while trainers intensively kneaded the muscles in his arm.
    Matt Barrows, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2025
  • As for socialism, the factories of the Eastern Bloc gobbled up resources, using two to three times as much steel as capitalist factories for every dollar of output produced.
    Matthew Mitchell, Twin Cities, 28 Sep. 2025
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“Scarfed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scarfed. Accessed 22 Oct. 2025.

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