Gobble-up synonyms

Some boys gobble up books as if they were candy bars, but others don't seem to show any interest in reading.

He had asserted that, owing to the habit of foreclosing small mortgages, " any one with a hundred gulden could gobble up a peasant a year."

He described tiny self-replicating nanobots which could escape and gobble up the whole biosphere, leaving only ' gray goo '.

While a powerful program, AVG doesn't gobble up system resources nor slow performance and is very fast providing uninterrupted protection so you don't have to worry about viruses.

The underlying idea is that the absorb function will greedily gobble up any arguments which are supplied.