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Definition of "gormandize" [gor•mand•ize]

  • To eat gluttonously; gorge. (verb-intransitive)
  • To devour (food) gluttonously. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "gormandize" in a sentence
  • ""novel orchard" and to nibble and eat, and even "gormandize," as your fancy leads you."
  • "I want to eat till I am full, I want to drink my fill! to gormandize! to sleep! to do nothing!"
  • "Again, there are the phenomena seekers who gormandize on the so-called proofs and demonstrations obtained at materializing séances."