2 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Devour \De*vour"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Devoured}; p. pr & vb
n. {Devouring}.] [F. d['e]vorer, fr L. devorare de + vorare
to eat greedily, swallow up See {Voracious}.]
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.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
devoured
adj : destroyed or wasted as if by eating; "forests devoured by
flame"; "an inheritance eaten up by debt" [syn: {eaten
up(p)}]
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