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as in gorging
to eat greedily or to excess
everybody tends to gormandize on Thanksgiving—it's traditional!
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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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as in devouring
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for gormandizing
Verb
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My Chemical Romance hasn’t shared a full-length album in almost a decade and a half, but fans are clearly still devouring its discography.—
Hugh McIntyre,
Forbes.com,
12 Apr. 2025 -
Quolls are threatened by the cane toad, which was introduced to Australia in 1935 in an attempt to control beetle pests that were devouring sugarcane roots.—
Jeffrey Kluger,
Time,
7 Apr. 2025
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Especially as the townspeople, including a local bishop, start feasting on him.—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
21 Feb. 2025
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The ranch is plagued with destructive wild hogs, so panthers do the state a favor by feasting on the invasive pests.—
Mark Price,
Miami Herald,
19 Feb. 2025
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But inhaling enough can turn the act of breathing into an existential hazard, prompting or worsening asthma, COPD, respiratory infections, and permanent lung damage.—
Zoë Schlanger,
The Atlantic,
9 Apr. 2025
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The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner released its official report on Carter's death on April 18, 2023, attributing his cause of death to drowning after inhaling difluoroethane and taking alprazolam, the generic form of brand-name Xanax.—
Johnny Dodd,
People.com,
9 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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The ethos makes perfect sense given the insatiable need for cash from the media companies and the relentless competition on the field … and at the negotiating table.—
Jon Wilner,
Mercury News,
11 July 2025
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An insatiable hunger for compute, intensifying competition in reasoning, especially scientific and medical reasoning capabilities, unresolved safety trade-offs and the nascent push toward physical-world integration via robotics characterize the AI trend in the next few years.—
Gerui Wang,
Forbes.com,
10 July 2025
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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
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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
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Weatherspoon brings a sweetness to each page that slowly builds to a sensual climax, leaving you ravenous for more.—
Ashley Poston,
New York Times,
21 May 2025
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Fans became so ravenous that multiple guests drove hours for a taste, sometimes visiting from other states, only to find no physical space for dining.—
Stephanie Breijo,
Los Angeles Times,
25 June 2025
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Along the way, the administration recast the U.S. commitment to European security from a mutually beneficial partnership to a sucker’s game that enabled gluttonous free-riding at Americans’ expense.—
Gideon Rose,
Foreign Affairs,
23 June 2025
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And there's history of the market going from existential panic to exhilarating audacity in a blink, such as when the 1998 near-bear market on hedge-fund blowups reversed to give way to the gluttonous risk binge of 1999.—
Michael Santoli,
CNBC,
9 June 2025
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“Gormandizing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gormandizing. Accessed 19 Jul. 2025.
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