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devour
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)
- To eat quickly, greedily, hungrily, or ravenously.
- To rapidly destroy, engulf, or lay waste.
- 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.
- To absorb or engross the mind fully, especially in a destructive manner.
Synonyms
- gobble, gorge, consume, devastate, overwhelm, wolf
Translations
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gluttonize
English
Alternative forms
- gluttonise
Etymology
glutton +? -ize
Verb
gluttonize (third-person singular simple present gluttonizes, present participle gluttonizing, simple past and past participle gluttonized)
- (intransitive) To eat an excessive amount, or voraciously.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Hallywell to this entry?)
Translations
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