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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Aurivorous :: Aurivorous (a.) Gold-devouring.
Devour :: Devour (v. t.) To eat up with greediness; to consume ravenously; to feast upon like a wild beast or a glutton; to prey upon.
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..
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..
Carabus :: Carabus (n.) A genus of ground beetles, including numerous species. They devour many injurious insects..
Prey :: Prey (n.) The act of devouring other creatures; ravage.
Devourer :: Devourer (n.) One who, or that which, devours..
Cultrivorous :: Cultrivorous (a.) Devouring knives; swallowing, or pretending to swallow, knives; -- applied to persons who have swallowed, or have seemed to swallow, knives with impunity..
Raven :: Raven (v. t.) To devour with great eagerness.
Bollworm :: Bollworm (n.) The larva of a moth (Heliothis armigera) which devours the bolls or unripe pods of the cotton plant, often doing great damage to the crops..
Fret :: Fret (v. t.) To devour.
Carnal :: Carnal (a.) Flesh-devouring; cruel; ravenous; bloody.
Devour :: Devour (v. t.) To enjoy with avidity; to appropriate or take in eagerly by the senses.
Self-devouring :: Self-devouring (a.) Devouring one's self or itself.
Devouringly :: Devouringly (adv.) In a devouring manner.
Ingurgitate :: Ingurgitate (v. t.) To swallow, devour, or drink greedily or in large quantity; to guzzle..
Ravenous :: Ravenous (a.) Devouring with rapacious eagerness; furiously voracious; hungry even to rage; as, a ravenous wolf or vulture..
Voraginous :: Voraginous (a.) Pertaining to a gulf; full of gulfs; hence, devouring..
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..
Lickpenny :: Lickpenny (n.) A devourer or absorber of money.
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