Gobble
Take
Take verb - To reach for and take hold of by embracing with the fingers or arms.
Common collocations
| amount | gobble amount | take amount |
Both words in one sentence
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If anyone disrespects her house, trespasses near her or tries to take her husband away, she'll gobble them up.
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These footnotes regularly take up more space than the main body and occasionally gobble up a whole page.
Source: Footnote Fever -
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.
Source: Crazy Consumption
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