gormandize

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of GORMANDIZE

to eat greedily or to excess <everybody tends to gormandize on Thanksgiving—it's traditional!>

Synonyms gormandize, overeat, pig out, swill

Related Words devour, glut, sate, stuff, surfeit, wolf; banquet, feast, regale; bolt, cram, gulp, guzzle

Near Antonyms nibble, peck, pick, taste

to swallow or eat greedily <hungry soccer players who will gormandize whatever they happen to find in the fridge>

Synonyms bolt, cram, devour, glut [archaic], gorge, gormandize, gulp, ingurgitate, inhale, raven, scarf, scoff, slop, wolf

Related Words overeat, pig out, swill

Near Antonyms nibble, peck, pick

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