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Meaning devour meaning

What does devour mean?
Definitions in simple English

devour Verb

— If something is being devoured, it is being destroyed quickly. The fire was devouring the building.

devour

— verb destroy completely Fire had devoured our home — verb enjoy avidly She devoured his novels — verb eat greedily he devoured three sandwiches — verb (= down) eat immoderately Some people can down a pound of meat in the course of one meal

Synonyms devour synonyms

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devour English » English

eat gobble consume swallow gorge gulp wolf down eat up gulp down wolf guzzle gobble up feed engulf engorge down absorb swallow up raven pig go through glut eat greedily destroy tuck in scoff raze overgorge ingurgitate guttle exhaust drink dispatch cram bolt wrack waste victual vaporize vandalize vandalise tuck away trouble total through take swallow whole swallow down subvert stuff in

Topics devour topics

What do people use devour to talk about?
Universe, creation Animal Animal actions

Animal eating
Daily life Food Eat

Manner of eating

Conjugation devour conjugation

How do you conjugate devour?

devour · verb

Examples devour examples

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Simple sentences

I devour one detective story after another.
I devour one crime novel after another.
I will devour you little girl.

Movie subtitles

The Niam-Niam had taken us prisoner and wanted to devour us.
Dr. Seward, your patient Renfield, whose blood I have just analyzed, is obsessed with the idea. that he must devour living things. in order to sustain his own life.
The beast will devour them all, and we'll marry princes!
Why tire out these sturdy hounds, these nice gentlemen? Why make them sweat blood and water before they're going to devour you anyway?
This will bring prehistoric reptiles to devour whatever remains of life!
Today's world resembles a stormy sea full of dangerous fish, which devour one another, each according to its strength.
The large devour the small, and the small eat the smallest.
She'd devour us all.
Please, devour me.
Devour me.
In the old days, she use to devour the brides of the Karnstein.
It will devour you bit by bit!
Yes. Do you want to Kiowas to devour our scalps with vinegar and onions?
I've got enough fight in me to devour the world.
Dr. Seward, your patient, Renfield, whose blood I have just analyzed, is obsessed with the idea that he must devour living things in order to sustain his own life.
Did you devour your mate like a praying mantis?
He will devour you!
Pickles, jam, sweet and sour, For the king all to devour.
But here, above the monster Amensit, who, as you can see, is part crocodile, part lion and part hippo, and who waits to devour the heart of the dead man is the glyph for a house.
Egypt carries poisonous serpents in her bosom which sap the people's lifeblood and devour the wealth of governors and pharaohs.
Leopard will devour it.
Before the fires below devour you.
The mathmos will devour you.
He said the mathmos will devour us.
You say we must destroy the French and the Spanish. and the rich Yanquis who devour Mexico and swallow her bones.
That hatred will devour us.
The Beast will devour them all, and we'll marry princes!
And the buzzards. the scavengers of the jungle. Soaring lower, ever lower, eager to devour the dead or the dying.
Devour mine in one go.
I am Crassus of the Red Planet and I will devour your entrails by the light of Utare and its 7 moons.
But still the house affairs would draw her thence which ever as she could with haste dispatch she'd come again and with a greedy ear, devour up my discourse.
The beasts do not devour each other.
When they smell blood, they attack in mass and can devour an ox or a person. in a jiffy.
No, man doesn't devour his dreams, quite the opposite.
Devour her, your libido!
Devour her!

News and current affairs

In Brazil, a movement to ban wild animals from circuses started after hungry lions managed to grab and devour a small boy.
TEL AVIV - Revolutions throughout history have proven to devour their children.
Democracy tarnishes its heroes as surely as revolutions devour their children.
BERLIN - Revolutions, it is said, almost always devour their children.
Soft spoken, mild mannered, thoughtful, and with a wonderful sense of humor, Tajbakhsh is portrayed by the Iranian government as a ravenous wolf ready to devour the regime.

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