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gormandize

gormandize is the alternative spelling of gourmandise.

Meaning of gourmandise

Verb

gourmandise (third-person singular simple present gourmandises, present participle gourmandising, simple past and past participle gourmandised)

  1. To eat food in a gluttonous manner; to gorge; to make a pig of oneself.
    • I have long dream'd of such a kind of man, / So surfeit-swell'd, so old and so profane; / But, being awaked, I do despise my dream. / Make less thy body hence, and more thy grace; / Leave gormandizing; know the grave doth gape / For thee thrice wider than for other men.c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]. Epilogue.”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […]...
    Synonyms:
    guttle

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Forms of gormandize

third-person singular presentgormandizes
present participlegormandizing
past participlegormandized
pastgormandized

Words formed from gormandize

Questions about gormandize

What is gormandize the alternative spelling of?
Gormandize is the alternative spelling of gourmandise.

Words near gormandize in the dictionary

  1. gormandiser
  2. gormandisers
  3. gormandises
  4. gormandising
  5. gormandism
  6. gormandize
  7. gormandized
  8. gormandizer
  9. gormandizers
  10. gormandizes
  11. gormandizing

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Adapted from Wiktionary: gormandize (page history and authors); gourmandise (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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