Definition of devour

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Devour (v. t.) To enjoy with avidity; to appropriate or take in eagerly by the senses.

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Lurch :: Lurch (v. i.) To swallow or eat greedily; to devour; hence, to swallow up..
Eat :: Eat (v. t.) To chew and swallow as food; to devour; -- said especially of food not liquid; as, to eat bread..
Ingurgitate :: Ingurgitate (v. t.) To swallow, devour, or drink greedily or in large quantity; to guzzle..
Devour :: Devour (v. t.) To eat up with greediness; to consume ravenously; to feast upon like a wild beast or a glutton; to prey upon.
Mouth :: Mouth (v. t.) To take into the mouth; to seize or grind with the mouth or teeth; to chew; to devour.
Consume :: Consume (v. t.) To destroy, as by decomposition, dissipation, waste, or fire; to use up; to expend; to waste; to burn up; to eat up; to devour..
Devouring :: Devouring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Devou.
Engorge :: Engorge (v. t.) To swallow with greediness or in large quantities; to devour.
Prey :: Prey (n.) That which is or may be seized by animals or birds to be devoured; hence, a person given up as a victim..
Devour :: Devour (v. t.) To seize upon and destroy or appropriate greedily, selfishly, or wantonly; to consume; to swallow up; to use up; to waste; to annihilate..
Mouse :: Mouse (v. t.) To tear, as a cat devours a mouse..
Self-devouring :: Self-devouring (a.) Devouring one's self or itself.
Cannibal :: Cannibal (n.) A human being that eats human flesh; hence, any that devours its own kind..
Raven :: Raven (v. t.) To devour with great eagerness.
Cormorant :: Cormorant (n.) Any species of Phalacrocorax, a genus of sea birds having a sac under the beak; the shag. Cormorants devour fish voraciously, and have become the emblem of gluttony. They are generally black, and hence are called sea ravens, and coalgeese..
Aurivorous :: Aurivorous (a.) Gold-devouring.
Prey :: Prey (n.) The act of devouring other creatures; ravage.
Edacious :: Edacious (a.) Given to eating; voracious; devouring.
Engorgement :: Engorgement (n.) The act of swallowing greedily; a devouring with voracity; a glutting.
Voraginous :: Voraginous (a.) Pertaining to a gulf; full of gulfs; hence, devouring..
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