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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
gormandize .
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Examples
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How he gormandizes, that jolly miller! rasher after rasher, how they pass away frizzling and, smoking from the gridiron down that immense grinning gulf of a mouth.
George Cruikshank 2006
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Who gormandizes on current events will pay the price with a morbid mind and with false conclusions in his reasoning.
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He that gormandizes makes himself sick, enlarges his stomach, taxes his digestive organs above their capacity; a sluggish feeling follows.
Documenting the American South, or, The Southern Experience in 19-th Century America 1898
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How he gormandizes, that jolly miller! rasher after rasher, how they pass away frizzling and, smoking from the gridiron down that immense grinning gulf of a mouth.
George Cruikshank William Makepeace Thackeray 1837
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