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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

GOR'MANDIZE, v.i. To eat greedily; to swallow voraciously.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself; "She stuffed herself at the dinner"; "The kids binged on ice cream" [syn: gorge, ingurgitate, overindulge, glut, englut, stuff, engorge, overgorge, overeat, gormandize, gormandise, gourmandize, binge, pig out, satiate, scarf out]

Merriam Webster's

verb (-dized; -dizing) Etymology: gormand, alteration of gourmand Date: 1548 intransitive verb to eat gluttonously or ravenously transitive verb to eat greedily ; devour • gormandizer noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v. & n. (also -ise) --v. 1 intr. & tr. eat or devour voraciously. 2 intr. indulge in good eating. --n. = GOURMANDISE. Derivatives: gormandizer n. Etymology: as GOURMANDISE

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Gormandize Gor"mand*ize, v. i. & t. [imp. & p. p. Gormandized; p. pr. & vb. n. Gormandizing.] [F. gourmandise gluttony. See Gormand.] To eat greedily; to swallow voraciously; to feed ravenously or like a glutton. --Shak.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

v. n. Gorge, stuff, eat greedily, feed ravenously or excessively.

Moby Thesaurus

batten, bolt, bolt down, cram, devour, engorge, glut, gluttonize, gobble, gorge, gulp, gulp down, guttle, guzzle, live to eat, raven, stuff, wolf, wolf down