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Meaning of 'devour' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Devour [ v. t.]
- To eat up with greediness; to consume ravenously; to feast upon like a wild beast or a glutton; to prey upon.
- To seize upon and destroy or appropriate greedily, selfishly, or wantonly; to consume; to swallow up; to use up; to waste; to annihilate.
- To enjoy with avidity; to appropriate or take in eagerly by the senses.

Meaning of 'devour' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . devour [ v]
Meaning (1):
- destroy completely
Example in sentence:
  • Fire had devoured our home;
  • The fire consumed the building;
  • the wrecking ball demolished the building;
  • we must not let our civil liberties be subverted by the current crisis
Meaning (2):
- eat greedily
Example in sentence:
  • he devoured three sandwiches
Meaning (3):
- enjoy avidly
Example in sentence:
  • She devoured his novels
Meaning (4):
- eat up completely, as with great appetite
Example in sentence:
  • Some people can down a pound of meat in the course of one meal;
  • The teenagers demolished four pizzas among them

Nearby Words:

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