devour : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: devour	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for devour
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
devour v destroy completely; "Fire had devoured our home" enjoy avidly; "She devoured his novels" eat immoderately; "Some people can down a pound of meat in the course of one meal" Synonym(s): devour, down, consume, go through eat greedily; "he devoured three sandwiches" Synonym(s): devour, guttle, raven, pig
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Devour \Devour"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Devoured}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Devouring}.] [F. d[82]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.