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noun

ˈwu̇lf How to pronounce wolf (audio)
Definition of wolfnext
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as in womanizer
a man given to seducing women she threatened to geld the wolf if he didn't stop making passes at her

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as in predator
a person who habitually preys upon others no sooner had the lottery winner's name been made public than the wolves with their investment schemes showed up on her doorstep

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wolf

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verb

as in to devour
to swallow or eat greedily don't wolf your food or you'll be sick

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Recent Examples of wolf
Noun
Transformation scenes can be unintentionally laughable, and no one has fully figured out how to make a wolf-human hybrid look less like a fall-season impulse buy at Home Depot and more like a terrifically terrifying beast. — Eve Batey, Vanity Fair, 16 Oct. 2026 Some public school advocates have called the tax credit as a wolf in sheep’s clothing aimed at further privatizing public education. — Austin Horn, Miami Herald, 16 Oct. 2026
Verb
The urge to wolf down something sweet may be caused by a sudden spike or drop in glucose and other metabolic changes in the body, researchers have found. — Angela Haupt, Time, 4 Nov. 2025 The New York Mets set the one-day team record, wolfing down 103 one day in 2014 while waiting for a game that was postponed. — Bill Plunkett, Oc Register, 4 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for wolf
Recent Examples of Synonyms for wolf
  1. womanizer
  2. predator
  3. devour
  4. lover
  5. vampire
  6. inhale
  7. satyr
  8. gulp
Noun
  • The piece follows the fall of the notorious libertine, a reckless womanizer, ignoring many supernatural warnings until a ghostly stone attempts to have its way with his soul.
    — David John Chávez, Mercury News, 2 Sep. 2026
  • The serial womanizer, 29, who’s appeared on Too Hot to Handle and Perfect Match, found his forever love in Amber Mozo on Wednesday’s finale of Netflix’s Let’s Marry Harry.
    — Leigh Blickley, Entertainment Weekly, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of womanizer
Noun
  • Because the outcome of sporting events holds significance to the athlete, the brain doesn’t distinguish between the threat of letting a team down by allowing a game-losing goal and a predator in the wild.
    — Jesse Granger, New York Times, 23 Oct. 2026
  • With few predators in these new habitats, a single fish can produce more than 2 million eggs a year.
    — Victoria Malloy, Time, 21 Oct. 2026
Definition of predator
Verb
  • That money has helped keep the medical bills from devouring the Griffins' emergency savings.
    — Stephanie O'Neill, NPR, 21 Oct. 2026
  • Here are the best of the hundreds of novels King fans have devoured for decades.
    — Theara Coleman, TheWeek, 21 Oct. 2026
Definition of devour
Noun
  • Overton, however, claimed that both informants were lying — and that the semen found on the comforter was planted on the scene by a spurned ex-lover with connections to the police department.
    — Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 22 Oct. 2026
  • The professionalization worked, but at the expense of the site’s internal culture, Cooke argues, as generous eccentrics were displaced by neurotic lovers of rules.
    — Julian Lucas, New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2026
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  • Many Orlando-area homes feature skeletons that tower over the neighborhood, witchy covens, horror movie icons, clowns, pirate ships, pumpkins, zombies and vampires.
    — Patrick Connolly, The Orlando Sentinel, 22 Oct. 2026
  • It is nearly considered folkloric, with contemporary vampires still mirroring the characteristics of Polidori’s Ruthven.
    — Maria Papadouris, JSTOR Daily, 20 Oct. 2026
Definition of vampire
Verb
  • Slice off a wedge of cornbread, then, and inhale the toasty steam that rises up.
    — Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2026
  • Without a mask, without fear of needing lung implants, without having to worry about inhaling a soupçon of strychnine or similar industrial pollutants.
    — Jeff Spry, Space.com, 21 Oct. 2026
Definition of inhale
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  • Mythical creatures, too, soaked in the supernatural; half-men, half-animals who evaded classification—centaurs and satyrs, fauns and werewolves—straddling the boundary between man and beast.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 30 July 2026
  • Through the eyes of a scammer, America is a nation of satyrs and harlots, our concupiscence interrupted only by occasional trips to Walmart or the gas station.
    — Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 26 May 2026
Definition of satyr
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  • Sang-woo, who’d previously refused to drink soju with Ho-seok and Mi-ok, gulps down a fifteen-hundred-dollar bottle of Gaja Chardonnay.
    — E. Tammy Kim, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2026
  • The customer gulps it down in a single stretch and drops it into a bin – visible proof of his relief, at least for this moment, from the sweltering heat.
    — Light Oriye Tamunotonye, Christian Science Monitor, 3 Sep. 2026
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