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WOLF DOWN

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Eat hastily

Example:

The teenager wolfed down the pizza

Synonyms:

wolf; wolf down

Classified under:

Verbs of eating and drinking

Hypernyms (to "wolf down" is one way to...):

eat (take in solid food)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sentence example:

They wolf down more bread

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