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DEVOURINGNESS

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de⋅vour

  [di-vour]
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–verb (used with object)
1. to swallow or eat up hungrily, voraciously, or ravenously.
2. to consume destructively, recklessly, or wantonly: Fire devoured the old museum.
3. to engulf or swallow up.
4. to take in greedily with the senses or intellect: to devour the works of Freud.
5. to absorb or engross wholly: a mind devoured by fears.
Origin:
1275–1325; ME devouren < AF, OF devourer < L dēvorāre to swallow down, equiv. to dē- de- + vorāre to eat up

Related forms:
de⋅vour⋅er, noun
de⋅vour⋅ing⋅ly, adverb
de⋅vour⋅ing⋅ness, noun
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Word Origin & History

devour 
c.1315, from O.Fr. devorer, from L. devorare "swallow down," from de- "down" + vorare "swallow."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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