1
as in to gorge
to eat greedily or to excess everybody tends to gormandize on Thanksgiving—it's traditional!

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2
as in to devour
to swallow or eat greedily hungry soccer players who will gormandize whatever they happen to find in the fridge

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  • May brings a chance to celebrate the 150 cultures represented in the city with celebrations like Japan Fes (gorge yourself on everything from yakisoba to matcha sweets).
    Mark Ellwood, AFAR Media, 6 Mar. 2025
  • Tykwer was one of a new generation of film geek obsessives, autodidacts who gorged themselves on midnight screenings, VHS tapes and repertory theaters, whose movies would mash up the tropes and obsessions of cinema history with the fresh aesthetics of video games and music videos.
    Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Feb. 2025
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  • After the party broke up, Cal coaches adjourned to their offices to begin devouring Mississippi State tape.
    Jerry McDonald, The Mercury News, 16 Mar. 2025
  • But revolutions have a way of devouring some of their early and most eager adherents.
    Jackie Snow, Quartz, 10 Mar. 2025
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  • That prompted at least a week’s worth of coverage, because the British press can be relied upon to feast on the lowest-hanging fruits.
    Rory Smith, The Athletic, 19 Mar. 2025
  • Whether a requiem is due for rom-coms or not, in the meantime there's at least a conveyor belt of cringe to feast upon.
    Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 6 Mar. 2025
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  • The pope suffered a number of respiratory complications, such as inhaling some vomit that led to aspiration and required noninvasive mechanical ventilation.
    Mark Davis, Newsweek, 16 Mar. 2025
  • When ingested or inhaled, these microplastics can release these chemicals into the body, potentially leading to adverse health effects.
    Sheah Rarback, Miami Herald, 13 Mar. 2025
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  • Slurp your bev up like a straw or tip the bottle back to gulp it down.
    Louryn Strampe, WIRED, 22 Mar. 2025
  • That would have been like the Celtics willingly trading, gulp, Paul Pierce to the Heat at one point.
    Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 8 Mar. 2025
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“Gormandize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gormandize. Accessed 2 Apr. 2025.

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