Synonyms for devour
dɪˈvaʊrde·vour

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1. devourverb

   Synonyms:
   gorge, consume, devastate, gobble, overwhelm

2. devourverb

   To eat quickly, greedily, hungrily, or ravenously.

   Synonyms:
   gobble, overwhelm, devastate, gorge, consume

3. devourverb

   To rapidly destroy, engulf, or lay waste.

   The fire was devouring the building.

   Synonyms:
   consume, gorge, devastate, gobble, overwhelm

4. devourverb

   To take in avidly with the intellect.

   She intended to devour the book.

   Synonyms:
   overwhelm, gorge, gobble, consume, devastate

5. devourverb

   To absorb or engross the mind fully, especially in a destructive manner.

   After the death of his wife, he was devoured by grief.

   Synonyms:
   consume, devastate, gorge, overwhelm, gobble

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:3.4 / 10 votes

1. devour

   Synonyms:
   eat, consume, swallow, gorge, gobble, bolt, absorb

   Antonyms:
   disgorge, vomit

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:3.7 / 3 votes

1. devourverb

   destroy completely

   "Fire had devoured our home"

   Synonyms:
   go through, down, guttle, pig, raven, consume

2. devourverb

   enjoy avidly

   "She devoured his novels"

   Synonyms:
   go through, down, guttle, pig, raven, consume

3. devour, down, consume, go throughverb

   eat immoderately

   "Some people can down a pound of meat in the course of one meal"

   Synonyms:
   land, take in, eat up, pull down, exhaust, ware, put through, eat, pass, push down, kill, go through, follow out, take, have, belt down, waste, use up, drink down, see, shoot down, cut down, ingest, go across, run through, toss off, pour down, follow up, follow through, squander, guttle, wipe out, carry out, down, bolt down, refine, raven, experience, pop, work through, fine-tune, knock down, consume, pig, implement, deplete, polish

4. devour, guttle, raven, pigverb

   eat greedily

   "he devoured three sandwiches"

   Synonyms:
   pig it, guttle, pig, down, go through, consume, farrow, predate, prey, raven

Matched Categories

1. • Destroy
   • Eat
   • Enjoy

Editors ContributionRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. mop

   eating with breathtaking ferocity .

   i’m so hungry im going to mop this plate!

   Submitted by rinat on August 15, 2019  

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. devourverb

   Synonyms:
   gorge, engorge, eat heartily, swallow eagerly

2. devourverb

   Synonyms:
   destroy, consume, waste, spend, expend, swallow up

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1. devourverb

   Synonyms:
   consume

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:2.7 / 3 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "devour":

   eat

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How to use devour in a sentence?

1. Matthew Dube (at weed thumb):

   Personal power is the ability to stand on your two feet with a wide smile amid a plethora of universal circumstances that are ready to crush you or devour you.

2. Luigi Barzini:

   They eat the dainty food of gamous chefs with the same pleasure with which they devour gross peasant dishes, mostly composed of garlic and tomatoes, or fisherman's octopus and shrimps, fried in heavily scented olive oil on a little deserted beach.

3. Henry Ward Beecher:

   The power of hiding ourselves from one another is mercifully given, for men are wild beasts, and would devour one another but for this protection.

4. Socrates:

   Snowmen come to life during the full moon to devour children.

5. Darrell West:

   Crises can keep people together, the president may say ‘ everything is on the line. We have to stick together or Republicans are going to devour us. Democrats have virtually no margin. They ca n’t lose hardly any legislator on these major bills. So if they’re lucky, the party will stick together and it will put them in a position to pass major legislation.