When you've gone all day without eating anything, you'll probably devour your dinner, especially if it's your very favorite homemade lasagna. Devour means to eat greedily and hungrily.
To eat up with greediness; to consume ravenously; to feast upon like a wild beast or a glutton; to prey upon.
Verb
eat greedily; "he devoured three sandwiches"
Verb
eat immoderately; "Some people can down a pound of meat in the course of one meal"
Verb
destroy completely; "Fire had devoured our home"
Verb
enjoy avidly; "She devoured his novels"
v. t.
To eat up with greediness; to consume ravenously; to
feast upon like a wild beast or a glutton; to prey upon.
v. t.
To seize upon and destroy or appropriate greedily,
selfishly, or wantonly; to consume; to swallow up; to use up; to waste;
to annihilate.
v. t.
To enjoy with avidity; to appropriate or take in eagerly
by the senses.
Devour
Some evil beast hath devoured him.2.
Famine and pestilence shall devour him.
I waste my life and do my days devour.3.
Longing they look, and gaping at the sight, Devour her o'er with vast delight.
To eat up with greediness; to consume ravenously; to feast upon like a wild beast or a glutton; to prey upon.
Usage Examples
Beauty is but a flower, which wrinkles will devour.
The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.
They eat the dainty food of famous chefs with the same pleasure with which they devour gross peasant dishes, mostly composed of garlic and tomatoes, or fisherman's octopus and shrimps, fried in heavily scented olive oil on a little deserted beach.
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Other Usage ExamplesAmong the weeds choking out growth and good government are the hundreds of boards, commissions, and advisory committees that have sprouted over the years. They devour time, money, and energy far beyond any real contribution they make.
Knowledge is not eating, and we cannot expect to devour and possess what we mean. Knowledge is recognition of something absent it is a salutation, not an embrace.
Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.
The product of the artist has become less important than the fact of the artist. We wish to absorb this person. We wish to devour someone who has experienced the tragic. In our society this person is much more important than anything he might create.
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