gormandize
[verb gawr-muh n-dahyz; noun gawr-muh n-deez]
- to eat greedily or ravenously.
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Also especially British, gor·mand·ise.
Origin of gormandize
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Related Words for gormandize
devour, binge, gobble, gulp, stuff, wolf, overeat, guzzle, overindulge, glut, Hoover, gluttonizeExamples from the Web for gormandize
Historical Examples of gormandize
And how I gormandize on hardtack baked in the first place for the Revolutioners, and kept over ever since.
Si Klegg, Book 3 (of 6)John McElroy
Indeed, very frequently when he did not get permission to gormandize, this naughty glutton helped himself without leave.
Holiday HouseCatherine Sinclair
Once a year, at the village club dinner, they gormandize to repletion.
The Eulogy of Richard JefferiesWalter Besant
Their power to gormandize seems unlimited, and the number of insects they can swallow without protest is almost incredible.
The Renewal of Life; How and When to Tell the Story to the YoungMargaret Warner Morley
And others enjoy themselves and gormandize themselves with our labor; and they hold us like dogs on chains, in ignorance.
MotherMaksim Gorky
gormandize
gormandise
- to eat (food) greedily and voraciously
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- a less common variant of gourmandise
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