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gobbling

noun as in overeating

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The pie continues to expand, but foreign automakers are gobbling up slightly larger pieces this year than last.

Defying the economic recession, strapped shoppers are gobbling up high-priced gizmos from Apple, Amazon, and others.

It is to say that there is a bunch of free advertising out there that millions of us have been gobbling up for years.

The banks are gobbling up the stimulus dollars, and savings-eating zombies still stalk the land.

The contemporary-art world seems to be successfully gobbling up Street art.

Their manner of talking has been compared to the clucking of a hen, and by the Dutch to the "gobbling of a turkeycock."

His mate, meanwhile, was gobbling the lily-root as if she had not eaten for a week.

You fellers vot iss always gobbling yet, you iss quit it alreatty!

While vocal and fly-gobbling talents are tenderly fostered, dignified Wisdom is not only neglected, but persecuted.

The bear appeared to be listening also; there was gobbling and a pause; more gobbling and another pause—oh!

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On this page you'll find 156 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to gobbling, such as: acquisitive, avaricious, avid, carnivorous, close, and close-fisted.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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