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English

Etymology

Anglo-Norman devourer, Old French devorer (Modern French dévorer), from Latin d?vor?, from vor?.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d??va?(w)?(?)/
• Rhymes: -a??(?)
• Rhymes: -a?.?(?)

Verb

devour (third-person singular simple present devours, present participle devouring, simple past and past participle devoured)

1. To eat quickly, greedily, hungrily, or ravenously.
2. To rapidly destroy, engulf, or lay waste.
3. To take in avidly with the intellect or with one's gaze.

   • Little disappointed, then, she turned attention to "Chat of the Social World," gossip which exercised potent fascination upon the girl's intelligence. She devoured with more avidity than she had her food those pretentiously phrased chronicles of the snobocracy […] distilling therefrom an acid envy that robbed her napoleon of all its savour.

4. To absorb or engross the mind fully, especially in a destructive manner.

Synonyms

• gobble, gorge, consume, devastate, overwhelm, wolf

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