SCARFING Synonyms: 20 Similar and Opposite Words

scarfing

verb

present participle of scarf

as in devouring

to swallow or eat greedily the college students scarfed the entire contents of the care package in one sitting

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Recent Examples of scarfing Eating them is less like scarfing a burger than eating soft, ground meat over rice. — John Metcalfe, Mercury News, 28 July 2026 On a crowded concourse in the middle of a Saturday morning two months before the start of the season, fans are chugging beers, scarfing Dodger dogs, and even doing a line dance. — Los Angeles Times, 31 Jan. 2026 There’s just something about scarfing oodles of vittles during and after skiing that is far more satisfying than any other post mountain pursuit grubfest. — Outside Online, 24 Dec. 2025

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The youthfulness behind the order was balanced by his commitment to fitness and his role as a professional hockey player that kept him from devouring it all.

— Scott Powers, New York Times, 30 July 2026
The swarms of flies that roamed the planet like a devouring fog enclosed the top of the tower, building new, shivering walls, buzzing in a frenzy of life and hunger.

— Brian Truitt, USA Today, 27 July 2026

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Legionnaires' disease is a severe form of pneumonia that is caused by inhaling the Legionella bacteria in small droplets of water mixed in the air or contaminated water accidentally going into the lungs.

— Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 31 July 2026
Health effects from inhaling wildfire smoke But the effects are sweeping, said Hayden, who has developed real-time mapping of mortality estimates from wildfire smoke.

— Eduardo Cuevas, USA Today, 18 July 2026

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