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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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..
Ravening :: Ravening (a.) Greedily devouring; rapacious; as, ravening wolves..
Aphidivorous :: Aphidivorous () Devouring aphides; aphidophagous.
Engorge :: Engorge (v. t.) To swallow with greediness or in large quantities; to devour.
Devouringly :: Devouringly (adv.) In a devouring manner.
Scavenger :: Scavenger (v.) A person whose employment is to clean the streets of a city, by scraping or sweeping, and carrying off the filth. The name is also applied to any animal which devours refuse, carrion, or anything injurious to health..
Edacious :: Edacious (a.) Given to eating; voracious; devouring.
Devoration :: Devoration (n.) The act of devouring.
Chop :: Chop (v. t.) To seize or devour greedily; -- with up.
Ingurgitate :: Ingurgitate (v. t.) To swallow, devour, or drink greedily or in large quantity; to guzzle..
Fret :: Fret (v. t.) To devour.
Preyer :: Preyer (n.) One who, or that which, preys; a plunderer; a waster; a devourer..
Carabus :: Carabus (n.) A genus of ground beetles, including numerous species. They devour many injurious insects..
Mouth :: Mouth (v. t.) To take into the mouth; to seize or grind with the mouth or teeth; to chew; to devour.
Eat :: Eat (v. t.) To chew and swallow as food; to devour; -- said especially of food not liquid; as, to eat bread..
Monitor :: Monitor (n.) Any large Old World lizard of the genus Varanus; esp., the Egyptian species (V. Niloticus), which is useful because it devours the eggs and young of the crocodile. It is sometimes five or six feet long..
Ravenous :: Ravenous (a.) Devouring with rapacious eagerness; furiously voracious; hungry even to rage; as, a ravenous wolf or vulture..
Lurch :: Lurch (v. i.) To swallow or eat greedily; to devour; hence, to swallow up..
Aurivorous :: Aurivorous (a.) Gold-devouring.
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..
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