very slow; exasperatingly slow

to hog; to keep everything for oneself

wonton

to annex; to swallow (up); to embezzle

to swallow up; to annex; to merge

tepid; lukewarm; (fig.) apathetic; half-hearted; sluggish; mild-tempered

to misappropriate (public funds etc); to embezzle

very slow

(lit.) to nibble like a silkworm or swallow like a whale (idiom); (fig.) to seize (territory etc) incrementally or wholesale