as in devoured
to swallow or eat greedily
gobbled the sandwiches like they hadn't eaten for days
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Recent Examples of gobbled
Eight games into their postseason (seven wins), their starting pitchers – Shohei Ohtani, Snell, Yamamoto and Glasnow – have gobbled up 52⅔ innings while allowing 11 runs (nine earned) on 24 hits and striking out 63.
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Bill Plunkett, Oc Register, 16 Oct. 2025
Because there were only seven minutes left in the game, however, the 49ers quarterback instead gobbled three bananas while trainers intensively kneaded the muscles in his arm.
—Matt Barrows, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2025
As for socialism, the factories of the Eastern Bloc gobbled up resources, using two to three times as much steel as capitalist factories for every dollar of output produced.
—Matthew Mitchell, Twin Cities, 28 Sep. 2025
Detroit gobbled its crab cakes.
—Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Sep. 2025
This family- and crowd-friendly meal gets gobbled up at all kinds of occasions.
—Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 24 Sep. 2025
And consider doubling the batch, because it’s guaranteed to be gobbled up.
—Lynda Balslev, Mercury News, 22 Aug. 2025
The data centers that fuel AI have already gobbled up all of the content on just about every website visible on the internet.
—Tim Carter, Hartford Courant, 16 Aug. 2025
Leafy cherry trees, the fruit all gone, gobbled up by us and by the birds, and trees with ripening white and flat peaches.
—Literary Hub, 15 Aug. 2025
Bill Plunkett, Oc Register, 16 Oct. 2025
Because there were only seven minutes left in the game, however, the 49ers quarterback instead gobbled three bananas while trainers intensively kneaded the muscles in his arm.
—Matt Barrows, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2025
As for socialism, the factories of the Eastern Bloc gobbled up resources, using two to three times as much steel as capitalist factories for every dollar of output produced.
—Matthew Mitchell, Twin Cities, 28 Sep. 2025
Detroit gobbled its crab cakes.
—Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Sep. 2025
This family- and crowd-friendly meal gets gobbled up at all kinds of occasions.
—Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 24 Sep. 2025
And consider doubling the batch, because it’s guaranteed to be gobbled up.
—Lynda Balslev, Mercury News, 22 Aug. 2025
The data centers that fuel AI have already gobbled up all of the content on just about every website visible on the internet.
—Tim Carter, Hartford Courant, 16 Aug. 2025
Leafy cherry trees, the fruit all gone, gobbled up by us and by the birds, and trees with ripening white and flat peaches.
—Literary Hub, 15 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for gobbled
Verb
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Angelo’s is the lunch stop and Strowman devoured ribs, brisket and more smoked meats, restaurant owner Jason George told the Star-Telegram.—
Brayden Garcia,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
24 Oct. 2025
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The little green worm quickly devoured yours.—
David Browne,
Rolling Stone,
23 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Its use was banned in many countries around the turn of the millennium amid concerns that the fibers, when airborne, could result in potentially fatal lung diseases if inhaled.—
Jack Beresford,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 Oct. 2025
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Previous research has found that TCE, when inhaled or ingested, can easily cross the blood-brain barrier and cause damage to neurons.—
Melissa Rudy,
FOXNews.com,
6 Oct. 2025
Verb
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So the 46,000 at the Stadium of Light gulped again.—
Michael Walker,
New York Times,
22 Sep. 2025
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“Gobbled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gobbled. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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