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devour

verb

1 devour

Destroy completely.

Roget 298: eat, feed, fare, devour, swallow, take; gulp, bolt, snap; fall to; despatch, dispatch; discuss; take down, ... show more

2 devour

Enjoy avidly.

3 devour

Eat up completely, as with great appetite.

synonyms: consume, demolish, down, go through.

Roget 162: be destroyed &c.; perish; fall to the ground; tumble, topple; go to pieces, fall to pieces; break up; crumble to dust; go to the dogs, go to the wall, go to smash, go to shivers, ... show more

4 devour

Eat greedily:
— He devoured three sandwiches.

synonyms: guttle, pig, raven.

Dutch: vreten, schransen, binnenspelen, buffelen, bunkeren, metselen, opschransen, opschrokken, opslokken, schrokken ... show more


noun

Roget 957: gluttony; greed, avarice; greediness etc. adj.; voracity.    epicurism; good living, high living; edacity, gulosity, crapulence; guttling, ... show more

Moby thesaurus: absorb, adore, and sinker, annihilate, appreciate, bask in, batten, be a sucker, be pleased with, be taken in, bite, bolt, bolt down, bring to ruin, condemn, confound, consume, cram, damn, deal destruction ... show more.

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