Eat and Gobble

Eat

Eat verb - To take in as food.
Usage example: having gone all day without food, we greedily ate the hamburgers

Gobble is a synonym for eat in consume topic. In some cases you can use "Gobble" instead a verb "Eat", when it comes to topics like devour.

Nearby Words: eating, eatable, eaten, eater

Gobble

Gobble verb - Eat hastily without proper chewing.
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Synonyms for Gobble

Eat is a synonym for gobble in devour topic. You can use "Eat" instead a verb "Gobble".

Nearby Words: gobbled, gobbling, gobbler

Common collocations

children eat children gobble children
food eat food gobble food
brains eat brains gobble brains
humans eat humans gobble humans

Both words in one sentence

  • Crazy Consumption He'd eat food by the wagon-load if it was available, but would gobble up whole livestock, chomp on the appendages of attackers, or even take bites out of trees, if that was all he could reach.
  • Video Game / Crysis The "virus" breaks us down to sludge that most terrestrial fauna can't eat, but that the Ceph Ticks gobble right up.Hargreave: What do you do with the millions of rotting corpses?
  • Literature / Leviathan The bats gobble up these metal spikes, then release them over the enemy.Alek: They eat spikes.
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