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- pronunciation:
- dih
vaUr
- features:
- Word Combinations (verb)
| part of speech: |
transitive verb |
| inflections: |
devours, devouring, devoured |
| definition 1: |
to eat or swallow greedily.
The lion devoured its prey.I'm so hungry I could devour that whole turkey.- synonyms:
- consume, gobble, wolf
- similar words:
- bolt, gulp, ingest, stuff
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| definition 2: |
to swallow up or consume as if by eating rapidly.
The fire devoured thousands of trees.- synonyms:
- consume
- similar words:
- destroy, eat, gobble
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| definition 3: |
to take in greedily with the mind or senses.
She devours each new novel that this author puts out.- synonyms:
- consume, gobble
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| definition 4: |
to absorb, engulf, or dominate wholly.
She was devoured by the waves.He was devoured by ambition.- synonyms:
- absorb, consume, engross, engulf, swallow
- similar words:
- envelop
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| related words: |
absorb, consume, eat, engross, engulf, finish, glut, gnaw, kill, prey, swallow, use |
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| derivations: |
devouringly (adv.), devourer (n.) |
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