transitive. To swallow up, devour utterly.

transitive. To swallow or devour greedily. Also with down, in, up.

transitive. To eat up, devour.

transitive. To eat up, to eat greedily. Also occasionally intransitive.

transitive. To swallow greedily.

transitive. To gulp, swallow greedily.

to waste in gluttony, devour.

transitive. To swallow greedily, devour. Also with up. Latterly northern and Scottish.

transitive. To swallow (drink or food) quickly or in large mouthfuls, to gulp; to drink or eat gluttonously.

transitive. To swallow down, gobble up.

transitive. To swallow greedily.

intransitive. To feed greedily (on). Also transitive: to devour.

transitive. To swallow, guzzle; transferred and figurative to devour voraciously. Also with in, up.

To consume completely, eat without leaving any; to devour greedily. Also figurative.

to swallow up. literal. To swallow completely or voraciously; to eat up, devour. Also absol.

To put (food) into the gorge; to devour greedily. Also transferred and figurative to swallow up (as a vortex).

transitive. To swallow in large draughts or morsels hastily or with greediness. Chiefly with down, †formerly also in, up.

transitive. To eat greedily or noisily.

transitive. To lap up or swallow greedily.

transitive. To devour (food, prey, etc.) voraciously; to wolf down (also with up, †in). Also figurative. Now rare.

To lap up greedily or noisily; to gobble up. Now dialect.

transitive and intransitive. To swallow greedily, hastily, or in large mouthfuls; to gulp.

Of human beings. To eat greedily, eat up, consume or make away with, as food.

To have urgent recourse to (a person) for help, support, or protection; to make a desperate appeal to (a person's generosity, mercy, etc.).

transitive. To swallow hastily or greedily. Obsolete.

transferred of persons. To feed greedily upon.

transitive. To swallow greedily, gulp down; also to glut down, to glut in (cf. englut, v., used earlier in this sense). Now rare.

To feed gluttonously on, glut oneself; to gloat or revel in. (With indirect passive, to be battened on, in modern writers.)

transitive. To gobble (something) up.

transitive. To swallow in a gobbet or gobbets; to eat quickly or greedily in large mouthfuls; to gobble. Frequently with down, up. Obsolete.

to make a (also one's) meal on (also upon): to devour, to feed on. Now rare.

To consume as a meal, to devour; (in extended use) to take advantage of, exploit, ravage, etc. See also make, v.1 49.

To take into the gorge, to swallow; to devour greedily. †Also with in.

transitive. humorous. To eat up (food) quickly or voraciously; (also) to drink (esp. an alcoholic drink) in this manner.

transitive. To devour greedily.

transitive. To devour or swallow greedily. Also with up, down.

intransitive. To yawn or gape; to gaze in astonishment. to gawp up: to devour. Also = gawk, v.

transitive. To eat, esp. voraciously or with relish. Cf. yam, v.

transitive. To devour or eat greedily; to gulp down.

transitive. To take (something) dishonestly or surreptitiously; to steal; to make off with. Obsolete.

transitive. To consume (a quantity of food or drink) in its entirety, esp. in a voracious manner.

transitive. To swallow greedily or hastily. Frequently with down, up. Also figurative.

transitive. humorous. To consume or deplete (a stock of food, drink, etc.).

transferred (chiefly humorous). To swallow up like an abyss; to bury completely.

colloquial. transitive. To eat (something) greedily. Chiefly with down. Cf. pig, v. 4a.

transitive. To eat voraciously, devour; also gen. to eat. Also with up, down. Also figurative.

transitive. In Eton College phraseology: to attempt to exhaust the supply of food at a meal, as an expression of dissatisfaction with the fare…

transitive. To consume (food or drink) greedily or in large amounts.

transitive. To eat like a wolf; to devour ravenously.

transitive. To devour or destroy (something) in a locust-like manner. Also intransitive.

dialect and colloquial. = gollop, v.; to swallow greedily.

To eat greedily, to gormandize. (See Eng. Dial. Dict.)

transitive. colloquial. To devour ravenously; to consume to the last drop or crumb. Esp. in I (he, she,etc.) could murder (an item of food or drink).

transitive. To consume ravenously. Also const. down. colloquial (originally Air Force slang).

transitive. To swallow or eat (food) like a pelican.

colloquial. transitive and intransitive. To eat or help oneself to (food) esp. greedily. Cf. hog, v.1 7a 7b.