gormandizing 1 of 2

adjective

Definition of gormandizingnext
as in devouring

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gormandizing

2 of 2

verb

present participle of gormandize
1
as in gorging
to eat greedily or to excess everybody tends to gormandize on Thanksgiving—it's traditional!

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2
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
  1. devouring
  2. feasting
  3. inhaling
  4. insatiable
  5. wolfish
  6. ravenous
  7. gluttonous
Verb
  • The film was way ahead of its time with Fox as a demon possessed it girl, seducing and devouring mainly men.
    Paul Tassi, Forbes, 7 Dec. 2024
  • Outdoor spiders are hard at work, devouring home and garden pests such as ants, flies, mosquitoes, aphids, and thrips.
    Arricca Elin SanSone, Southern Living, 6 Dec. 2024
Definition of devouring
Verb
  • This winter wonderland is home to the Wisconsin Great Northern Railroad, where each year, its Santa Train combines meeting Santa with feasting on pizza.
    Allison Tibaldi, USA TODAY, 30 Nov. 2024
  • Thanksgiving has arrived, which for millions of Americans means feasting on delicious holiday dishes surrounded by family and friends.
    Gabe Hauari, USA TODAY, 28 Nov. 2024
Definition of feasting
Verb
  • For humans, those averse cues can range from using needles to inhaling smoke.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 6 Dec. 2024
  • State health officials warn that drinking or accidentally inhaling raw milk infected with H5N1 could lead to illness.
    Susanne Rust, Los Angeles Times, 4 Dec. 2024
Definition of inhaling
Adjective
  • His sobering diagnosis, complete irreverence, and insatiable curiosity, send him on an unexpected journey learning how to die happily and ridiculously without losing his sense of humor.
    Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Dec. 2024
  • His sobering diagnosis, complete irreverence and insatiable curiosity, send him on an unexpected journey learning how to die happily and ridiculously without losing his sense of humor.
    Peter Debruge, Variety, 11 Dec. 2024
Definition of insatiable
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
Definition of wolfish
Adjective
  • The continental United States is jam-packed with reminders of our ravenous oil appetite.
    Mack DeGeurin, Popular Science, 5 Dec. 2024
  • But a sloppy end of the third quarter, with more miscues in the fourth, and the ravenous home crowd keeping the energy up, gave France an opening.
    David Aldridge, The Athletic, 10 Aug. 2024
Definition of ravenous
Adjective
  • In this, the second-to-last time Friends would celebrate November’s most gluttonous holiday, Rachel’s obnoxious sister Amy (Christina Applegate) invites herself to Thanksgiving, and the conversation turns to who would get custody of baby Emma if Rachel and Ross died.
    Brian Boone, Vulture, 15 Nov. 2024
  • For his part, Handel—a generally agreeable though fiercely proud man, witty and gluttonous and gouty, and given to polylingual swearing—was probably indifferent to such political and sectarian matters.
    Jan Swafford, The Atlantic, 29 Oct. 2024
Definition of gluttonous
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