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(v)
(transitive) Often followed by down or up: to swallow (something) greedily; to gobble, to guzzle.
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To swallow eagerly, or in large draughts; to swallow up; to take down in one swallow.
(transitive) To eat.
(transitive) To knock (someone or something) down; to cause to come down; to fell.
(intransitive) To greedily consume (especially food).
(transitive) To examine or scrutinize (a number or series of things).
(n)
(countable) Any of several, generally large and lustrous black species of birds in the genus Corvus, especially the common raven (Corvus corax).
(ambitransitive) To consume (something solid or semi-solid, usually food) by putting it into the mouth and swallowing it.
To take over or absorb something (especially an organisation) so it no longer has a separate identity; to assimilate.
(dated, uncountable) Drink; intoxicating liquor.
(transitive) To devour something greedily, gorge, glut.
(botany) The throat of a flower.
To swallow greedily or in large amounts.
(intransitive) To eat an excessive amount, or voraciously.
Alternative form of gluttonize. [(intransitive) To eat an excessive amount, or voraciously.]
(rail transport) The principal route or line of a railway.
One who eats voraciously, obsessively, or to excess; a gormandizer.
Archaic form of engorge. [(transitive) To devour something greedily, gorge, glut.]
(medicine) Feeding by means of a tube passed into the stomach
(simile, informal) To eat large amounts of food, especially when in a greedy and sloppy manner.
(by extension, informal) Courage; determination.
A selfish or excessive desire for more than is needed or deserved, especially of money, wealth, food, or other possessions.
An excess, too much.
(intransitive) To eat too much.
To consume too much.
To gorge to excess.
gluttony
(countable) An excessive amount of something.
A heavy blow, punch.
A short period of excessive consumption, especially of food, alcohol, narcotics, etc.
(idiomatic, informal) To eat excessively.
(intransitive) To die because of lack of food or of not eating.
To eat to one's satisfaction, until full. (This entry is a translation hub.)
(transitive) To feed a person or animal too much.
(transitive) To gnaw more or better than; to surpass in gnawing.
A state of wild activity or panic.
(colloquial, simile) To eat large amounts of food. (connoting a large quantity of food, but not one of gluttony or sloppiness)
(transitive) To chew too much.
(idiomatic) To eat to excess; to overeat; to gorge.
(idiomatic) To feel overwhelming sorrow, jealousy, or longing; to grieve.
(transitive) To nourish excessively.
(intransitive) To suffer extreme hunger or thirst, so as to be exhausted in strength, or to nearly perish.
To glut, satiate.
(ambitransitive) To bite something persistently, especially something tough.
(ambitransitive) To indulge to excess.
(transitive) To convert into a substance resembling liver.
(obsolete) To glut.
A short, sudden intake of breath.
(transitive) To eat more than.
(transitive) To enjoy too much.
An excessive and dangerous dose of a drug.
(transitive) To overfeed; feed to fullness or excess; make plump; fatten.
To give reluctantly.
(obsolete) A sulky look.
(adj)
Desirous; keen to do or obtain something.
(ambitransitive) To browse (eat vegetation) too much, to the detriment of the environment.
(transitive) To absorb too much of.
[with on] To look at with great satisfaction.
Expending or bestowing profusely; profuse; prodigal.
To overpower emotionally.
An all-night dance party with electronic dance music (techno, trance, drum and bass etc.) in small unknown clubs.
(figuratively) An aggressively defiant person.
(transitive) To fill to satisfaction; to satisfy.
(transitive, informal) To receive positively or react to with enthusiasm, especially to an excessive degree.
(transitive) To hunt (an animal, a piece of land, etc.) too much.
(slang) To enjoy oneself to the maximum.
(intransitive) To speak with exaggerated or rapturous enthusiasm (about, (up)on or over something).
Alternative form of make a pig of oneself. [(idiomatic) To eat to excess; to overeat; to gorge.]
(intransitive) To be present or available in large numbers or quantities; to be plentiful.
A state of heat and light being emitted by a hot object.
(slang, UK) To engage in or seek pleasurable activities with great enthusiasm.
Resentful desire of something possessed by another or others (but not limited to material possessions).
(transitive, dated) To fill beyond satiety.
Obsolete form of engulf. [(transitive) To overwhelm.]
Insufficient gain.
To buy excessively, especially to buy more than one needs or can afford.
(transitive, dialectal) A stratagem.
(transitive) To put to death; to extinguish the life of.
To rake or scrape to excess.
To hasten excessively; to rush
To delight, to make exuberant
(ambitransitive) To drink to excess.
To gain too much.
(idiomatic) To despise; to hate intensely or passionately.
(idiomatic) To overindulge someone, especially when it results in making them selfish and demanding.
(transitive) To give great joy, delight or pleasure to.
A burden; a weight to be carried.
(transitive) To cherish excessively.
(by extension) (sometimes with a negative connotation) An exaggeratedly enthusiastic or exalted expression of feeling in speech or writing.
(slang) To play a game for an excessive period of time.
A piece of meat suited to roasting; meat that has been roasted.
(ambitransitive) To give too lavishly.
(transitive) To dominate the thoughts of someone.
To read too much or excessively.
Excessive abuse.
(slang, figurative) To vomit intensely, prolongedly, or both.
(transitive) To lick too much or too often.