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gormandizing

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verb

present participle of gormandize
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as in inhaling
to swallow or eat greedily hungry soccer players who will gormandize whatever they happen to find in the fridge

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for gormandizing
Verb
  • Fishing is the largest export in the country, but that doesn’t mean locals aren’t devouring it by the shipful.
    Claire Volkman, Vogue, 7 Jan. 2025
  • Mamet plays Ruby’s best friend AJ, who dives into her friend’s mystery after years of devouring true-crime podcasts.
    Glenn Garner, Deadline, 26 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • Research has also shown that the site was used for feasting and acted as a burial ground for locals and others further afield (like from Wales).
    Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 21 Dec. 2024
  • Louis spotted three lion cubs, only 18 months old, feasting on a Bushbuck.
    Lucy Edwards, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • Tanning nasal sprays have entered the illicit tanning market as a way to get a sunless tan by inhaling a squirt of the product through your nose.
    Marisa Garshick, Verywell Health, 30 Dec. 2024
  • From Grateful Dead shows to the dawn of the rave scene, people have been inhaling the gas to get high for decades.
    Ben Dandridge-Lemco, Rolling Stone, 29 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • At the heart of this transformation lies the exponential growth of artificial intelligence (AI) and its insatiable appetite for electricity.
    Robert Rapier, Forbes.com, 26 Mar. 2025
  • Imports have become a cheap solution for insatiable appetites.
    Alana Al-Hatlani, Southern Living, 24 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • The black, wolfish dog was sentenced to death by the Framingham Police Department after tearing into the arm of the boy next door who came over to pet him.
    Peter Rubin, Longreads, 4 Oct. 2024
  • From the counter of Chez Bebelle, proprietor Gilles Belzons—a large wolfish figure who once played rugby for Narbonne—picks up a megaphone and hollers across to the charcutier opposite.
    Rick Jordan, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Dec. 2022
Adjective
  • Regardless of their general publisher designation, the ravenous architects of Hungry Minds want to be known beyond the world of reading.
    Josh Weiss, Forbes.com, 4 Apr. 2025
  • Once everyone had a turn, the tables were opened for ravenous seconds, thirds and fourths, until no crumbs were left behind.
    Simon J. Levien, New York Times, 30 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • To devour one in a single bite would be gluttonous.
    Tanya Sichynsky, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2025
  • Another venerable Caribbean Carnival tradition is the breakfast party, which on paper sounds like bona-fide madness: wake up in the middle of the night, go to a nice venue, drink and dance until the sun rises, eat a gluttonous drunken breakfast, then return home to get back in bed and knock out.
    Baz Dreisinger, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2025
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“Gormandizing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gormandizing. Accessed 10 Apr. 2025.

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