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What does gobble up mean?

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  1. (transitive) To consume something rapidly.
  2. (by extension, figuratively) To continually absorb or expand through annexation.
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I didn't want to eat any of them, mind you, I just wanted to gobble up the display with my eyes.
We therefore have before us an invitation to gobble up and weaken other European projects such as the Seventh Research Framework Programme.
If we plant only lodgepole pine trees there is a greater likelihood that pinewood beetles will gobble up these monocultural forests.
Some of us are ruthless in the manner we gobble up the natural finite resources of other sovereign states.
It will gobble up your fields and hedgerows, your trees and wildlife habitats.
Debt servicing costs used to gobble up close to 38ยข out of every dollar the Government of Canada raised in revenue.

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