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Synonyms for devour
dɪˈvaʊrde·vour
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Wiktionary
devourverb
devourverb
To eat quickly, greedily, hungrily, or ravenously.
devourverb
To rapidly destroy, engulf, or lay waste.
The fire was devouring the building.
devourverb
To take in avidly with the intellect.
She intended to devour the book.
devourverb
To absorb or engross the mind fully, especially in a destructive manner.
After the death of his wife, he was devoured by grief.
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
Princeton's WordNet
devourverb
destroy completely
"Fire had devoured our home"
devourverb
enjoy avidly
"She devoured his novels"
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, polishdevour, guttle, raven, pigverb
eat greedily
"he devoured three sandwiches"
Synonyms:
pig it, guttle, pig, down, go through, consume, farrow, predate, prey, raven
Editors Contribution
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 Synonymes
devourverb
Synonyms:
gorge, engorge, eat heartily, swallow eagerlydevourverb
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
devourverb
Synonyms:
consume
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "devour":
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#26 | have | |
#64 | see | |
#246 | take | |
#311 | down | |
#566 | experience | |
#773 | land | |
#1493 | pass | |
#1523 | pop | |
#1980 | waste | |
#2728 | eat | |
#3096 | kill | |
#3594 | implement | |
#4835 | polish | |
#5397 | refine | |
#7393 | exhaust | |
#7993 | pig | |
#9696 | ware | |
#9798 | bolt | |
#10564 | raven | |
#11883 | swallow | |
#12727 | prey | |
#13640 | consume | |
#15816 | absorb | |
#17801 | gorge | |
#39035 | overwhelm | |
#43092 | devour | |
#47995 | farrow | |
#48993 | ingest | |
#51008 | gobble | |
#60914 | deplete | |
#80715 | devastate | |
#80961 | squander | |
#94947 | predate |
How to use devour in a sentence?
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.
We want the qualities of fools that our faults devour, then us. (Nous voulons qualités des fous - Que nos défauts dévorent, puis nous.) [Fables1, The Cheetah / Le Guépard]
Beyond Burger have meatless products on the market that could be difficult for people to distinguish from actual meat. However, Americans are eating more meat than they have in more than a decade. The average American meat-eater is set to devour nearly 221.5 pounds of meat this year alone, according to the USDA. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP Bill Pigott, a Republican Mississippi state representative and a member of the Cattlemens Association, said Bill Pigott aim in writing Mississippis version of the law was to make sure it was clear consumers knew what theyre buying. This was asked for by the cattle producers in Mississippi to clarify labeling laws, Bill Pigott said. [ Its ] not to stop any sale of any products, just allowing the consumer to know what theyre actually consuming. Bill Pigott said there was nothing wrong with Bill Pigott sponsoring the law -- though Bill Pigott is still a member of the Mississippi Cattlemens Association, Bill Pigott has retired from cattle production and would not personally benefit from the law.In a search of public records, Fox could not find any lobbying efforts or financial ties between Bill Pigott and Cattlemens Association. The Institute for Justice said consumers are savvy enough to understand what The Institute for Justice clients labels clearly state. Customers understand that 100percent vegan, means 100 percent vegan, attorney Justin Pearson said. The Institute for Justice not the governments job to sway consumers one way or the other. Customers get to decide what food they want to eat. Uptons Naturals said Uptons Naturals wasnt clear how much Uptons Naturals would cost the company to re-package Uptons Naturals products if the meat labeling prohibition is upheld in Mississippi. Uptons Naturals would have to consider Uptons Naturals options. Cattlemens Association said the right to choose would still be alive and well for consumers, but appropriate labels would make things much clearer. Cattlemens Association doesnt ban anybody from selling anything theyre selling now.
Those who are destroying the Amazon are the big farms, and it's those big farmers who made (Bolsonaro) president. Now, they think they can deforest and burn and devour everything.
The rich devour the poor and the devil devours the rich and so both are devoured.
Translations for devour
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- افترسArabic
- ям лакомо, поглъщамBulgarian
- devorarCatalan, Valencian
- hltat, pohltit, zhltnoutCzech
- grovædeDanish
- fressen, verschlingenGerman
- καταβροχθίζωGreek
- manĝegi, voriEsperanto
- jambar, devorarSpanish
- ahmiaFinnish
- dévorerFrench
- zabál, falHungarian
- melahapIndonesian
- devorarIdo
- divorareItalian
- 貪るJapanese
- ತಿನ್ನುತ್ತಾರೆKannada
- 삼킬Korean
- peredōLatin
- whāō, horomiti, ngūngūMāori
- schransen, vreten, verslindenDutch
- pożreć, pożeraćPolish
- devorarPortuguese
- devoraRomanian
- лопать, жратьRussian
- pròždrijētiSerbo-Croatian
- slukaSwedish
- తినేయుTelugu
- 吞食Chinese
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