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Electric vehicle put in dreary gorge (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

devour

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'gorge' is the definition.
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'electric vehicle put in dreary' is the wordplay.
'electric vehicle' becomes 'ev' (this might be a standard abbreviation I've not previously seen).
'put in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'dreary' becomes 'dour' (I've seen this before).
'ev' inserted inside 'dour' is 'DEVOUR'.

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(Other definitions for devour that I've seen before include "Eat (food) hungrily" , "Consume greedily" , "Eat (food) quickly" , "Guzzle" , "Quickly consume" .)

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