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de·vour    Audio Help   [di-vour] Pronunciation Key
–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 dévorāre to swallow down, equiv. to dé- de- + vorāre to eat up]

de·vour·er, noun
de·vour·ing·ly, adverb
de·vour·ing·ness, noun
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de·vour    Audio Help   (dĭ-vour')  Pronunciation Key 
tr.v.   de·voured, de·vour·ing, de·vours
  1. To eat up greedily. See Synonyms at eat.
  2. To destroy, consume, or waste: Flames devoured the structure in minutes.
  3. To take in eagerly: devour a novel.
  4. To prey upon voraciously: was devoured by jealousy.


[Middle English devouren, from Old French devourer, from Latin dēvorāre : dē-, de- + vorāre, to swallow.]

de·vour'er n., de·vour'ing·ly adv.
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Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
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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devour

verb
1. destroy completely; "Fire had devoured our home" 
2. enjoy avidly; "She devoured his novels" 
3. eat immoderately; "Some people can down a pound of meat in the course of one meal" 
4. eat greedily; "he devoured three sandwiches" 

WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University.
Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
devour [diˈvauə] verb
to eat up greedily
Example: The young zebra was devoured by a lion; She devoured the chocolates.
Arabic: يَفْتَرِس، يَلْتَهِم
Chinese (Simplified): 狼吞虎咽
Chinese (Traditional): 狼吞虎咽
Czech: sežrat, zhltnout
Danish: sluge; fortære
Dutch: verslinden
Estonian: nahka panema
Finnish: ahmaista
French: dévorer
German: verschlingen
Greek: καταβροχθίζω
Hungarian: elnyel
Icelandic: éta, háma, gleypa í sig
Indonesian: melahap
Italian: divorare
Japanese: がつがつ食べる
Korean: 게걸스레 먹다, 다 먹어치우다
Latvian: rīt
Lithuanian: (su)ryti
Norwegian: sluke, kaste i seg, fortære
Polish: pożerać
Portuguese (Brazil): devorar
Portuguese (Portugal): devorar
Romanian: a devora; a mânca cu lăcomie
Russian: пожирать
Slovak: zhltnúť
Slovenian: požreti
Spanish: devorar
Swedish: sluka
Turkish: gövdeye indirmek, silip süpürmek
Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary, © 2000-2006 K Dictionaries Ltd.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

Devour

Dev`o*ra"tion\, n. [L. devoratio. See Devour.] The act of devouring. [Obs.] --Holinshed.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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