gobble up
gobble up verb: to consume [something] rapidly.
Verb
gobble up (third-person singular simple present gobbles up, present participle gobbling up, simple past and past participle gobbled up)
- To consume [something] rapidly.
- supper gobbled up in haste1728, Jonathan Swift, The Journal of a Modern Lady
- Synonyms:
- forsling
- To continually absorb or expand through annexation.
- The city grew over the years by gobbling up land around its limits.
- […] institutional investors keep gobbling up tech, since those that shunned US tech stocks in the past suffered a “bug zapper” of underperformance, said Michael Cembalest of JPMorgan.2026 July 17, Gillian Tett, “The dangers of investor fatalism”, in Financial Times
gobble up meaning in Hindi and Tamil
gobble up in Hindi
- to gobble up, eat up
- मरोड़ना maroṛnā
gobble up in Tamil
- சாப்பிடு
Synonyms of gobble up
Forms of gobble up
| third-person singular present | gobbles up |
|---|---|
| present participle | gobbling up |
| past participle | gobbled up |
| past | gobbled up |
Questions about gobble up
- What does gobble up mean?
- Gobble up means to consume [something] rapidly.
- What is gobble up in Hindi?
- Gobble up in Hindi is मरोड़ना (maroṛnā). See Gobble up meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is gobble up?
- Gobble up is a verb.
- What is the past tense of gobble up?
- The past tense of gobble up is gobbled up.
Words near gobble up in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: gobble up (page history and authors); मरोड़ना (Hindi) (page history and authors); gobble up (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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