WOLFING Synonyms: 20 Similar and Opposite Words

wolfing

verb

present participle of wolf

as in devouring

to swallow or eat greedily don't wolf your food or you'll be sick

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Recent Examples of wolfing Chestnut has won 17 of the last 19 events, setting a record in 2021 after wolfing down 76 hot dogs and buns. — Matt Ott, Chicago Tribune, 21 Jan. 2026 The funny video showed the bulldog grabbing an entire bar out of Peeters' hand and wolfing it down in one bite. — Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 25 Dec. 2025

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Political theory students still study their practical wisdom, often after devouring centuries of more speculative and theoretical texts.

— Steven Johnson, Washington Post, 14 July 2026
Many of them, like Tubbs, were refugee Midwesterners, sick of parching droughts and devouring plagues of locusts, the insects descending in buzzing clouds thick enough to blacken the noonday sun.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 July 2026

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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
In many cases, people contract the disease by inhaling tiny droplets of contaminated water.

— ABC News, ABC News, 17 July 2026

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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, 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, Outside Online, 24 Dec. 2025

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