gobble up

English

Verb

gobble up (third-person singular simple present gobbles up, present participle gobbling up, simple past and past participle gobbled up)

1. (transitive) To consume something rapidly.
2. (by extension, figurative) To continually absorb or expand through annexation.

   The city grew over the years by gobbling up land around its limits.

Synonyms

• forsling

Translations

to consume rapidly

• French: goinfrer (fr)
• Icelandic: háma í sig, úða í sig, hakka í sig, spæna í sig, hesthúsa
• Latin: tuburcinor
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• Russian: поглощать (ru) impf (pogloščatʹ)
• Spanish: devorar (es)
• Swedish: glufsa i sig (sv)

to continually absorb or expand through annexation

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