wolf

1. 1.

   eat hastily

   “The teenager wolfed down the pizza”

   Synonymswolf down

   Broadereat

Other forms of wolf

plural

wolves

past tense

wolfed·

present participle

wolfing·

third person

wolfs·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about wolf

What does wolf mean?

wolf means "any of various predatory carnivorous canine mammals of North America and Eurasia that usually hunt in packs". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in wolf?

wolf has 1 syllable: wolf. In IPA it is /ˈwʊlf/.

What is another word for wolf?

Close synonyms include Hugo Wolf, Friedrich August Wolf, woman chaser, skirt chaser, masher. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is wolf a common word?

wolf is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with wolf?

5 words rhyme with wolf. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.