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.

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.

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To give delight to; charm; enchant.

Synonyms Consume, etc. See eat.

To consume.

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.

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.

verb. eat greedily

verb. destroy completely

verb. enjoy avidly

verb. eat immoderately

"The word devour had gained a fresh resonance for me."

consume  to devour the (or one's) way  

bask  destroy  eat  enjoy  relish  

Auer  Bower  Gower  Power  bower  

87-year-old  bull-goose  cassocked  damn  garden party  

absorb  adore  and sinker  annihilate  annihilate  

devoured  devouring  devours