Devour

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  • transitive verb. To eat up greedily. synonym: eat.
  • transitive verb. To destroy, consume, or waste.
  • transitive verb. To take in eagerly.
  • transitive verb. To preoccupy or obsess in a harmful way.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. See dever.
  • To eat up entirely; eat ravenously; consume as food.
  • To consume destructively, recklessly, or wantonly; make away with; destroy; waste.
  • To swallow up, literally or figuratively; draw into conjunction or possession; absorb; engorge; take in: as, to devour a book; the usurers have devoured his estate.
  • To gaze at absorbingly; look upon with avidity; view with delight.
  • undefined
  • To give delight to; charm; enchant.
  • Synonyms Consume, etc. See eat.
  • To consume.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To eat up with greediness; to consume ravenously; to feast upon like a wild beast or a glutton; to prey upon.
  • transitive verb. To seize upon and destroy or appropriate greedily, selfishly, or wantonly; to consume; to swallow up; to use up; to waste; to annihilate.
  • transitive verb. To enjoy with avidity; to appropriate or take in eagerly by the senses.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To eat quickly, greedily, hungrily, or ravenously.
  • verb. To rapidly destroy, engulf, or lay waste.
  • verb. To take in avidly with the intellect.
  • verb. To absorb or engross the mind fully, especially in a destructive manner.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. eat greedily
  • verb. destroy completely
  • verb. enjoy avidly
  • verb. eat immoderately