gorging

Synonyms for gorging

verb eat voraciously

adjective. very hungry, greedy

"eat greedily," c.1300, from Old French gorger, from gorge (see gorge (n.)). Related: Gorged; gorging.

They've been just gorging chickens this last year—nasty beasts!

The moment there were a few sous in the house they went in gorging.

Education was largely a process of gorging the memory with information.

Sunday was a day for gorging in this primitive land, while summer lasted.

That depends, dear boy, on whether we are frugal, or go on banqueting and gorging.

Meanwhile the Cockalorum is gorging himself with information.

The poor soul's only got one bedroom, so I monopolized it while he was gorging.

I fancy I saw Silverdale gorging the elevators with the choicest wheat, he said.

There was a limit to the gorging of the bat-winged beasts; they too could die on the spears.

Why, you must have been gorging yourself like a boa-constrictor, and been sleeping it off.