DEVOUR
\dɪvˈa͡ʊ͡ə], \dɪvˈaʊə], \d_ɪ_v_ˈaʊə]\
Definitions of DEVOUR
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
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eat immoderately; "Some people can down a pound of meat in the course of one meal"
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destroy completely; "Fire had devoured our home"
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enjoy avidly; "She devoured his novels"
By Princeton University
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eat immoderately; "Some people can down a pound of meat in the course of one meal"
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destroy completely; "Fire had devoured our home"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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To eat up with greediness; to consume ravenously; to feast upon like a wild beast or a glutton; to prey upon.
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To seize upon and destroy or appropriate greedily, selfishly, or wantonly; to consume; to swallow up; to use up; to waste; to annihilate.
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To enjoy with avidity; to appropriate or take in eagerly by the senses.
By Oddity Software
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To eat up with greediness; to consume ravenously; to feast upon like a wild beast or a glutton; to prey upon.
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To seize upon and destroy or appropriate greedily, selfishly, or wantonly; to consume; to swallow up; to use up; to waste; to annihilate.
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To enjoy with avidity; to appropriate or take in eagerly by the senses.
By Noah Webster.
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To swallow greedily or ravenously; as, to devour food; consume or destroy rapidly; as, flames devour a building; annihilate.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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To swallow greedily: to eat up: to consume or waste with violence or wantonness: to destroy.
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DEVOURER.
By Daniel Lyons
By James Champlin Fernald
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