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Meanings of gobble in inglés

portugués
devorar
catalán
cruspir-se
español
tragar

Eat hastily without proper chewing.

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        tragar

        To eat by swallowing large bits of food with little or no chewing.

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            Examples for "bolt"
            Examples for "bolt"
            1
            There's food in there, and a good strong bolt on the outside.
            The Shining
            2
            Siegrist added a middle bolt and took four days to work it.
            Climbing Magazine
            3
            The bolt came free, along with a good chunk of the wall.
            Succubi like it hot
            4
            Critics fear companies may simply choose to bolt to less costly states.
            Reuters
            5
            We made plans to return the following year with the bolt gun.
            Climbing Magazine
            Usage of gobble in inglés
            1
            We gobble up billions of dollars' worth of pain-reliever pills each year.
            Prescription alternatives: hundreds of safe, natural, prescripti...
            2
            Justice Department officials warned that allowing AT&T to gobble up the No.
            Reuters
            3
            Few organizations gobble up as much fossil fuel as the U.S. military.
            Wired
            4
            He watches the odd creatures eagerly as they gobble up the seed.
            Jean François Millet / A Collection of Fifteen Pictures and a Po...
            5
            Alec saw one of the larger ones gobble down two at once.
            The White Road
            6
            I'll gobble them up and deliver the right article to the city.
            Burning Daylight
            7
            Now they gobble down a full breakfast and drink fresh, strong coffee.
            To the end of the land
            8
            He was probably watching for an opportunity to gobble up the goldfish.
            Queer Little Folks
            9
            The red-haired boy began to gobble and walk in a large circle.
            Night Shift
            10
            You wouldn't stand for it; you had to gobble everything for nothing.
            The Short Cut
            11
            And they had to gobble it all up, as he told them.
            Two Years in the French West Indies
            12
            They gobble up your whole life, until one day there's nothing left.
            Dante's numbers
            13
            Now she had fallen low enough to gobble anything she could find.
            L'Assommoir
            14
            You always speak as if you were going to gobble people up.
            The Man-Wolf and Other Tales
            15
            They would just pour their cereal into a bowl, gobble and go.
            The Guardian
            16
            A swallow sweeping close to the water's surface may gobble him down.
            How To Write Special Feature Articles / A Handbook for Reporters...
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            Translations for gobble
            portugués
            devorartragar
            español
            tragar
            Gobble through the time
            Gobble across language varieties
            United Kingdom
            Common
            United States of America
            Common