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verb | verb | to phrases
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| devour (of insects); bite | |||
| destroy; gnaw; consume | |||
| gobble up | |||
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| gobble; raven; shark; englut; canker; gormandize; wolf; guttle; eat out; wolf down; eat away; guzzle; scarf (Tanya Garbar); engorge; consume; bite; gulp down (To deliver that much power, the eight-litre engine gulps down fuel; at full pelt, the Bugatti would drain its entire tank in about 12 minutes Гевар); gourmandise (Andrey Truhachev); gourmandize (Andrey Truhachev); champ up; chop up; glut; gobble to gobbet; gobble to gobbet up; lick up; prey on; prey upon; regorge; garbage down | |||
| devour (impf of пожрать); of insects bite (impf of пожрать) | |||
| hoover up; gobble up | |||
| eat up | |||
| feed on (Grub worms are young Scarab beetles or European chafer beetles that lay eggs in the earth and feed on grass roots, rendering sections of a lawn dead. One sign that you may have grub worms hiding in your lawn is brown patches. To check if you have them, simply grab the patch of brown grass and if it comes off easy with no roots, you got your culprit.(News 1130) ART Vancouver) | |||
| gnaw | |||
| destroy by fire, etc (impf of пожрать); consume by fire, etc (impf of пожрать); of feelings gnaw (impf of пожрать) | |||
| dispatch (Aly19); gobble up; despatch; hog; put away (пищу); dig in (Andrey Truhachev); devour (Andrey Truhachev); put away (Andrey Truhachev); scarf down (Am. Andrey Truhachev); eat | |||
| chew up; gobble down | |||
| hog down | |||
| lurch | |||
| gulch | |||
| worry | |||
| paunch; squff; walk into; garbage (Yeldar Azanbayev) | |||
| пожираться: 39 phrases in 7 subjects |
| Contextual meaning | 1 |
| General | 23 |
| Idiomatic | 1 |
| Informal | 3 |
| Makarov | 9 |
| Proverb | 1 |
| Slang | 1 |