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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of wolf.

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Examples

  • This is despite having 'wolfed' down a quarter of the prey, because they never knew where their next meal was coming from.

    Moshad could sniff out Gibson. 2006

  • I have offered the leavings of a meal to a savage just after he had apparently gorged himself and he "wolfed" it as if he were famished.

    An African Adventure Isaac Frederick Marcosson 1918

  • When the man had at last gone off, it was found that he had "wolfed" young master's best walking-stick, one with a fine tortoise-shell top to it.

    The Lodger Marie Belloc Lowndes 1907

  • He wolfed the peach down and wiped his bristled chin.

    An Old Peach John Wentworth Chapin 2011

  • We wolfed-down chiles rellenos, one of our favourites, washed down with delicious chilled Pacificos.

    Mazatlan: Tequila, tans and working stiffs 2009

  • I wolfed down a ham and cheese sandwich and a piece of pumpkin pie.

    Only in America Jack Swenson 2010

  • Uncle Jay, wolfed out and ready to go, huffed and rolled his canine eyes.

    The Art of Seducing a Naked Werewolf Molly Harper 2011

  • More Japan Real Time: 'Texas 2 Burger' Yasutsuru Mori, a svelte 74 year-old patron, wolfed down a Texas 2 Burger this weekend.

    Beefing Up McDonald's Mariko Sanchanta 2011

  • The same was true of fairy tales: I wolfed them down.

    The Dark Side of Innocence Terri Cheney 2011

  • Donovan had his own PT boat, which zipped him back and forth from Anzio to the OSS station in Bastia, where he wolfed down flapjacks and bacon in the dining hall with his men in the morning and sang Irish songs with them in the evening by a fireplace.

    Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011

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  • Simple past tense and past participle of English. --Wiktionary.

    April 16, 2011