de|vour´er

de|vour´er
de|vour «dih VOWR», transitive verb.
1. to eat (usually said of animals): »

The lion devoured the sheep.

2. to eat like an animal; eat very hungrily: »

The hungry boy devoured his dinner.

SYNONYM(S): gulp.
3. Figurative. to consume, waste, or destroy: »

devoured by disease. The raging fire devoured the forest. Inflation devours wages and the worker must run faster and faster just to stand still (Anthony B. Akers).

4. to swallow up; engulf: »

The jaws of darkness do devour it up (Shakespeare).

5. Figurative. to take in with eyes or ears in a hungry, greedy way: »

He devoured the new book about airplanes.

6. to absorb wholly: »

devoured by curiosity. She was devoured by anxiety about her lost child. ... in sorrow all devour'd (Shakespeare).

╂[< Old French devorer, learned borrowing from Latin dēvorāre < dē- down + vorāre gulp]
–de|vour´er, noun.
–de|vour´ing|ly, adverb.

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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