gobble up

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gobble up

verb gobbles up · gobbling up · gobbled up

transitive To consume [something] rapidly. supper gobbled up in haste
Similar: forsling
broadly, figuratively To continually absorb or expand through annexation. The city grew over the years by gobbling up land around its limits.

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verb to consume rapidly

Français	goinfrer
Deutsch	herunterschlingen
Русский	поглощать pogloščatʹ

verb to continually absorb or expand through annexation

Deutsch	verschlingen

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@misc{gobble_up_2026,
  title = {gobble up},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/gobble%20up},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}