Synonyms for devour
dɪˈvaʊr

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1. devourverb

   Synonyms:
   overwhelm, gorge, consume, devastate, gobble

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:
   gobble, overwhelm, devastate, consume, gorge

4. devourverb

   To take in avidly with the intellect.

   She intended to devour the book.

   Synonyms:
   devastate, consume, gobble, overwhelm, gorge

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 Antonyms(3.40 / 10 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. devour

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

   Antonyms:
   disgorge, vomit

Princeton's WordNet(3.67 / 3 votes)Rate these synonyms:

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

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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 Synonymes(5.00 / 1 vote)Rate these synonyms:

1. devourverb

   Synonyms:
   gorge, engorge, eat heartily, swallow eagerly

2. devourverb

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

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. devourverb

   Synonyms:
   consume

PPDB, the paraphrase database(2.67 / 3 votes)Rate these paraphrases:

1. List of paraphrases for "devour":

   eat

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How to use devour in a sentence?

1. Proverb:

   The rich devour the poor, and the devil devours the rich and so both are devoured.

2. 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.

3. Anuj Somany:

   Foolish people support often or always the photo bearing post of the self-seeker or most selfish individual on the social media by insanely thinking that this way they can fulfill via her/his contact or network their own vested-interest desire or wish, but those stupids do not realise that the same self-obsessed person is gonna even one day devour them as a fish or a sweet dish for self benefit or undue profit.

4. Proverb:

   The rich devour the poor and the devil devours the rich and so both are devoured.

5. Musin Almat Zhumabekovich:

   Not being collected inside is life inside. Fauna of wild instincts that devour each other. Flora of emotions and feelings. Romantic landscapes of impressions. Evolution of thinking in one century.

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