(v. i.) To swallow liquor greedily; to drink much or frequently.
(v. t.) To swallow much or often; to swallow with immoderate gust; to drink greedily or continually; as, one who guzzles beer.
(n.) An insatiable thing or person.
Example Sentences:
(1) Almost half of those tested so far have received an energy efficiency rating of E, F or G, the lowest possible and the equivalent of a gas guzzling car.
(2) The near-freebie prices amount to an especially generous giveaway to Venezuelans fond of large SUVs and gas-guzzling jalopies from the 1970s and 80s.
(3) Rolls-Royce, which is owned by the German carmaker BMW , said demand had been strong for the Wraith, a chunky, gas-guzzling two-door car priced at more than £210,000.
(4) There are legitimate reasons around the world for this – one is to stop the guzzling of a scarce resource.
(5) Peruse the aisles of manga, play PlayStation and online games, charge your mobile, sleep, and guzzle as much free fizzy melon soda as you like.
(6) Convincing viewers that Don and his colleagues aren't actually guzzling back booze might be the hardest sell of all.
(7) But in the face of the first oil shock – and in an age where shared wartime sacrifices for the common good were recalled more vividly than today – by banning gas-guzzling speeds, Washington put the security of supply to the collective ahead of individuals' desire to push the pedal to the metal.
(8) We’d also need to build exercise into daily living, and curtail out of town supermarkets which can only be reached by gas-guzzling obesity-inducing car culture.
(9) In Guzzle Hole cave, the sharp-eared will catch the sound of an underground river.
(10) A new generation of technologies designed to reduce our carbon footprints, energy monitoring takes our electricity usage into the light via wireless handheld displays, web pages and electronic flowers that wilt as we guzzle power.
(11) The firms warned in a statement that calm winter days with no wind could result in "large-scale supply disruptions", particularly in Germany's affluent and industry-heavy south, which guzzles much of the country's electricity.
(12) The military accounts for nearly 80% of the US government's energy consumption and the two wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have made strategists acutely conscious of both the massive cost and serious security risks of the gas-guzzling ways of the past.
(13) John Alker, public affairs manager of the UK Green Building Council, said: "Many of our public sector offices, schools and hospitals are the building equivalent of gas-guzzling cars.
(14) Stop the car’s battery recharging, perhaps, to save energy; test at unrealistically high temperatures and on super-slick test-tracks; switch off all the energy-guzzling accessories like heated seats, and air-conditioning, navigation and media systems; test cars at altitude.
(15) As a fast-food option, which is how people treat them in countries such as Thailand , insects are greatly preferable to the water-guzzling, rainforest-destroying, methane-spewing beefburger.
(16) Waiting at the hotel, we watched a minister guzzling champagne at the bar before being told we must meet the prime minister, Ignacio Milam Tang, first.
(17) As the Guardian has reported, new measures were pitched to put an electric car charging point in every new home , to redesign some energy-guzzling products and to remove new wind and solar power plants from the EU’s priority dispatch system .
(18) A child guzzles thirstily from a jerrycan lid before darting back into the crowd.
(19) Additional cuts also come from changes in their behaviour; shopping locally, holidaying in the UK and travelling by train, only putting the washing machine on when the wind is blowing and Postlethwaite forsaking his beloved gas-guzzling Saab convertible in favour of the their more fuel efficient VW Touran.
(20) Growth is not the answer to inequality Read more In this narrative, the biggest change you might have to make is to buy British lamb chops, not ones from New Zealand, exchange your gas-guzzling car for a Prius and, above all, remember to do your recycling.
Puzzle
Definition:
(v.) Something which perplexes or embarrasses; especially, a toy or a problem contrived for testing ingenuity; also, something exhibiting marvelous skill in making.
(v.) The state of being puzzled; perplexity; as, to be in a puzzle.
(v. t.) To perplex; to confuse; to embarrass; to put to a stand; to nonplus.
(v. t.) To make intricate; to entangle.
(v. t.) To solve by ingenuity, as a puzzle; -- followed by out; as, to puzzle out a mystery.
(v. i.) To be bewildered, or perplexed.
(v. i.) To work, as at a puzzle; as, to puzzle over a problem.
Example Sentences:
(1) More evil than Clocky , the alarm clock that rolls away when you reach out to silence it, or the Puzzle Alarm , which makes you complete a simple puzzle before it'll go quiet, the Money Shredding Alarm Clock methodically destroys your cash unless you rouse yourself.
(2) Our data and the model developed to interpret them in terms of fluctuations provide an explanation of the puzzling sharp reduction of water order near the chain-ordering phase transition.
(3) And David Ngog was a pointless signing too – one which puzzled us all.
(4) That's so far from how my mind works that I find it puzzling.
(5) This latest one continued developer Revolution Software’s run, sending you on the hunt for a stolen painting with puzzles and a well-worked storyline to hold your attention.
(6) Unexplained physical distress, when associated with alexithymia, becomes a diagnostic puzzle leading to prolonged investigation, ineffective treatment, and psychiatric referral.
(7) This scheme is used to rationalize previously puzzling data about the enzyme mechanism.
(8) With wearable computing just around the corner cracking integration with you, and indeed the organic-body, is critical for Apple and a final piece in the puzzle.
(9) Leanne Bowden, a mother of three on her way home on the school run, looks puzzled by the inquiry.
(10) The treatment of obesity remains a puzzling challenge because long-term maintenance of weight loss--one of the most suitable goals--is rarely achieved with conventional methods.
(11) It includes a reference to Banks's puzzling repeated insistence in media interviews that he "did not come up the river in a cabbage boat".
(12) In his letter responding to the resignation, the prime minister calls himself “puzzled and disappointed”.
(13) A persistent puzzle in our understanding of hemostasis has been the absence of hemorrhagic symptoms in the majority of patients with Hageman trait, the hereditary deficiency of Hageman factor (factor XII).
(14) "What was popular then was the puzzle: such qualities as psychological truth or even atmospheric location were secondary to it.
(15) A more pronounced decrease was produced by subjects working on puzzles than those working on mental calculation and by subjects working on easy tasks than those working on difficult tasks when the easy preceded the difficult ones.
(16) "We find it puzzling that the Department of Health would want a group that is opposed to abortion and provides no sexual health services on its sexual health forum."
(17) This MA lag of at least 2 years is consistent with the MA lag previously found on strategic games and puzzles.
(18) The boys attempted to solve two different sets of 10 find-a-word puzzles, one set following exposure to solvable puzzles, and one set following exposure to insolvable puzzles.
(19) That’s where blaming government failure fits into his ideological jigsaw puzzle.
(20) Some hypotheses about the cause of schizophrenia are based on the puzzling tendency for mental illness to affect the same sex when two close relatives become psychiatrically ill. Sex-concordance rates were examined in 71 schizophrenic probands, who had at least one first-degree relative suffering from the same disorder, in order to test this tendency in a population of recently admitted patients.