GOBBLED Synonyms: 20 Similar and Opposite Words

gobbled

verb

past tense of gobble

as in devoured

to swallow or eat greedily gobbled the sandwiches like they hadn't eaten for days

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Recent Examples of gobbled In June, in a move that reverberated through the tech industry, Apple raised prices across nearly all of its product lines in response to the surging costs of memory and storage, which are being gobbled up for AI infrastructure. — Mark Yarm, PC Magazine, 4 Aug. 2026 The Scottish Premiership is not platforming nearly enough teenage talents and the very best ones are being gobbled up by English academies. — Jordan Campbell, New York Times, 2 Aug. 2026 And Amazon and other merchants gobbled up the ubiquitous concrete cubes dotting the region’s landscape. — Zachary Hansen, AJC.com, 31 July 2026 The consumer electronics business is being squeezed by a shortage of memory and storage chips, which are being gobbled up in the AI arms race. — Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 30 July 2026 Though many old artists’ residences have been gobbled up by new high-rises, pockets of nostalgia persist on the streets of New York’s NoHo neighborhood. — Jennifer Fernandez, Architectural Digest, 30 July 2026 Young orcas then gobbled up fish fragments that drifted through the water as their elders tore into what was left of the sunfish’s corpse. — Mindy Weisberger, CNN Money, 23 July 2026 Last year, The Studio barged in and gobbled up six nominations; this year, Hacks did the same. — Joe Reid, Vulture, 17 July 2026 Deer-Proof Your Garden To keep your flowers from being gobbled up by deer—one of the most heartbreaking of all garden misfortunes—choose flowers that people find glorious and deer find disgusting. — Mary Alice Russell, Southern Living, 13 July 2026

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Their father devoured his meal, slurping up soup with his right hand and swallowing bread spread with miso paste with his left.

— Cynthia Zarin, Harpers Magazine, 4 Aug. 2026
Suddenly, you’re scooped up, whisked to a perch, and efficiently devoured by a blue dasher dragonfly.

— Rachel Sargent Mirus, Hartford Courant, 3 Aug. 2026

Definition of devoured

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Spores can enter through a cut in the skin or be inhaled or ingested.

— RJ Mackenzie, Popular Science, 5 Aug. 2026
There's been a drastic increase Fine particulates and gases, including carbon monoxide, are inhaled and can lodge deep within the lungs, causing inflammation and irritation.

— Phaedra Trethan, USA Today, 19 July 2026

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