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Definitions of Devour
Pronunciation : De*vour"
Part of Speech : v.
Etymology : [F. d?vorer, fr. L. devorare; de + vorare to eat greedily, swallow up. See Voracious.]
Definition : 1. To eat up with greediness; to consume ravenously; to feast upon like a wild beast or a glutton; to prey upon. Some evil beast hath devoured him. Gen. xxxvii. 20.

2. To seize upon and destroy or appropriate greedily, selfishly, or wantonly; to consume; to swallow up; to use up; to waste; to annihilate. Famine and pestilence shall devour him. Ezek. vii. 15. I waste my life and do my days devour. Spenser.

3. To enjoy with avidity; to appropriate or take in eagerly by the senses. Longing they look, and gaping at the sight, Devour her o'er with vast delight. Dryden.

Syn. -- To consume; waste; destroy; annihilate.

t. [imp. & p. p. Devoured; p. pr. & vb. n. Devouring.]
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913

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