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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 : [ gcide ]
Devour \De*vour"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Devoured; p. pr. & vb.
n. Devouring.] [F. d['e]vorer, fr. L. devorare; de + vorare
to eat greedily, swallow up. See Voracious.]
1. To eat up with greediness; to consume ravenously; to feast
upon like a wild beast or a glutton; to prey upon.
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Some evil beast hath devoured him. --Gen. xxxvii.
20.
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2. To seize upon and destroy or appropriate greedily,
selfishly, or wantonly; to consume; to swallow up; to use
up; to waste; to annihilate.
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Famine and pestilence shall devour him. --Ezek. vii.
15.
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I waste my life and do my days devour. --Spenser.
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3. To enjoy with avidity; to appropriate or take in eagerly
by the senses.
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Longing they look, and gaping at the sight,
Devour her o'er with vast delight. --Dryden.
Syn: To consume; waste; destroy; annihilate.
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) : [ web1913 ]
Devour \De*vour"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Devoured; p. pr. & vb.
n. Devouring.] [F. d['e]vorer, fr. L. devorare; de + vorare
to eat greedily, swallow up. See Voracious.]
1. To eat up with greediness; to consume ravenously; to feast
upon like a wild beast or a glutton; to prey upon.
Some evil beast hath devoured him. --Gen. xxxvii.
20.
2. To seize upon and destroy or appropriate greedily,
selfishly, or wantonly; to consume; to swallow up; to use
up; to waste; to annihilate.
Famine and pestilence shall devour him. --Ezek. vii.
15.
I waste my life and do my days devour. --Spenser.
3. To enjoy with avidity; to appropriate or take in eagerly
by the senses.
Longing they look, and gaping at the sight, Devour
her o'er with vast delight. --Dryden.
Syn: To consume; waste; destroy; annihilate.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 : [ wn ]
devouring
adj : (often followed by `for') ardently or excessively desirous;
"avid for adventure"; "an avid ambition to succeed";
"fierce devouring affection"; "the esurient eyes of an
avid curiosity"; "greedy for fame" [syn: avid, devouring(a),
esurient, greedy]
From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]
devouring
n.
The act by which something is devoured.
vb.
(present participle of en devour nocat=1)
From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]
devouring
n.
The act by which something is devoured.
vb.
(present participle of en devour nocat=1)
From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]
devouring
n.
The act by which something is devoured.
vb.
(present participle of en devour nocat=1)
From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]
devouring
n.
The act by which something is devoured.
vb.
(present participle of en devour nocat=1)
From Finnish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-fi-ALL-2023-07-27 ]
devouring
Englanti vb.
(en-v-taivm d evour ing)
From Swedish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-sv-ALL-2023-07-27 ]
devouring
Engelska a.
(avledning en devour ordform=prespart)
Engelska vb.
(böjning en verb devour)
From English-Arabic FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.6.3 : [ freedict:eng-ara ]Devouring /dɪvˈaʊəɹɪŋ/ الإلتهامFrom English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 : [ freedict:eng-deu ]
devouring /dɪvˈaʊəɹɪŋ/ auffressend, verschlingend see: devour sth., devoured, devour a bookFrom English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 : [ freedict:eng-deu ]
devouring /dɪvˈaʊəɹɪŋ/ verzehrend, zehrendFrom IPA:en_US : [ IPA:en_US ]Synonym: consuming
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 : [ moby-thesaurus ]/dɪˈvaʊɝɪŋ/
85 Moby Thesaurus words for "devouring":
a hog for, acquisitive, all-devouring, appetite, avaricious, avid,
bottomless, cannibalism, carnivorism, carnivority, carnivorousness,
chewing, consumption, coveting, covetous, cropping, deglutition,
devourment, dieting, dining, eating, epulation, esurient, feasting,
feeding, gluttonous, gluttony, gobbling, grabby, grasping, grazing,
greedy, herbivorism, herbivority, herbivorousness, hoggish, hunger,
ingestion, insatiable, insatiate, licking, limitless, manducation,
mastication, mercenary, messing, miserly, money-hungry, money-mad,
munching, nibbling, nutrition, omnivorism, omnivorous,
omnivorousness, omophagy, overgreedy, pantophagy, pasture,
pasturing, pecking, piggish, quenchless, rapacious, ravening,
ravenous, regalement, relishing, rumination, savoring, slakeless,
sordid, swinish, tasting, unappeasable, unappeased, unquenchable,
unsated, unsatisfied, unslakeable, unslaked, vegetarianism, venal,
voracious, wolfing