different between devour vs abite

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

Translations

English

Etymology

From Middle English abiten, from Old English ?b?tan (“to bite in pieces, tear to pieces, bite, eat, devour, gnaw, taste, partake of, consume”), from Proto-Germanic *uz- (“out”) + *b?tan? (“to bite”), equivalent to a- +? bite.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??ba?t/

Verb

abite (third-person singular simple present abites, present participle abiting, simple past abit, past participle abitten)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To bite; eat; devour.

Anagrams

• Batie, EBITA, beati

Afar

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bi?te/
• Hyphenation: a?bi?te

Verb

abité

1. Autobenefactive form of abé
   1. (transitive) marry
   2. (transitive) commence

Conjugation

References

• E. M. Parker; R. J. Hayward (1985) , “abite”, in An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, ?ISBN

Latin

Verb

ab?te

1. second-person plural active imperative of abe?: go away!, depart!