gormandized

verb

past tense of gormandize
1
as in gorged
to eat greedily or to excess everybody tends to gormandize on Thanksgiving—it's traditional!

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

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  1. gorged
  2. devoured
  3. inhaled
  4. gulped
  5. crammed
  6. scoffed
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  • America’s Poison Centers’s national helpline receives more than 60,000 calls about possible vitamin poisoning every year, mostly from parents alarmed after their children have accidentally gorged on the chewy sweets.
    — Cat Rainsford, Popular Science, 23 July 2026
  • And while fans have been sated by the footballing feast, FIFA and its member associations have gorged on the tournament’s fruits.
    — Tom Kludt, Vanity Fair, 17 July 2026
Definition of gorged
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  • If the demons find out about her power, she will be devoured.
    — Adam Harrington, CBS News, 7 Oct. 2026
  • Soon Drews noticed the speed with which her cheesecakes were devoured.
    — David Farley, Bon Appetit Magazine, 15 Sep. 2026
Definition of devoured
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  • And so, for the brand, only the most breathable, and healthily inhaled, natural materials will suffice.
    — Jaklin Romine Oct. 15, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2026
  • Those products are made with tiny particles that are more likely to be inhaled or absorbed by marine organisms.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 14 Oct. 2026
Definition of inhaled
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  • That public has continually widened its gullet and gulped.
    — Dan Greene, New Yorker, 18 May 2026
  • Many years had passed since Caity Maple, a Sacramento councilmember, gulped down orange juice.
    — Ishani Desai, Sacbee.com, 10 May 2026
Definition of gulped
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  • Yet Abrams still won’t kvetch about being crammed into a tiny whale-stomach set with a camera crew, while a half-dozen crew members surrounding the practical gut, wielding a gimbal, tossed him around like a wet rag doll.
    — Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 16 Oct. 2026
  • In 2013, Rana Plaza, a nine-story building crammed with garment factories outside the capital Dhaka, collapsed killing 1,100 people.
    — Oscar Holland, CNN Money, 15 Oct. 2026
Definition of crammed
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  • Trump scoffed at questions about affordability, insisting that they'd been caused by Biden, who left office more than two years ago.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 1 Oct. 2026
  • Jamie Florez, the Hispanic communications director of the Republican National Committee, scoffed at recent polling suggesting a shift in Hispanic voters towards Democrats.
    — Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 25 Sep. 2026
Definition of scoffed
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“Gormandized.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gormandized. Accessed 20 Oct. 2026.

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