gobble up

verb — 2 senses

gobble up

verb
1

To consume [something] rapidly.

  • supper gobbled up in haste1728, Jonathan Swift, The Journal of a Modern Lady:
2

Broadly, Figuratively To continually absorb or expand through annexation.

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

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