tr.v., -voured, -vour·ing, -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.]

devourer de·vour'er n.
devouringly de·vour'ing·ly adv.

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verb

1. To eat completely or entirely: consume, dispatch, eat up. Informal polish off, put away. See ingestion.
2. To take (food) into the body as nourishment: consume, eat, fare, ingest, partake. Slang chow. Idioms: break bread, havetakea bite. See ingestion.
3. To do away with completely and destructively: consume, eat (up), swallow (up), waste. See help/harm/harmless.
4. To use up foolishly or needlessly: consume, dissipate, squander, waste. See save/waste.
5. To be avidly interested in: eat up, feast on, relish. See concern/unconcern.

v

Definition: swallow, consume
Antonyms: abstain, pick

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IN BRIEF: To eat up greedily or to destroy as if by eating.

It is better to fall among crows than flatterers; for those devour only the dead — these the living. — Antisthenes (444-371 BC).

Dansk (Danish)
v. tr. - sluge, fortære, besætte, overvælde

Nederlands (Dutch)
verslinden, verteren (figuurlijk)

Français (French)
v. tr. - dévorer, engloutir, (fig) engloutir, consumer

Deutsch (German)
v. - verschlingen, verzehren

Ελληνική (Greek)
v. - καταβροχθίζω, κατατρώγω, αφανίζω, ρημάζω

Italiano (Italian)
divorare

Português (Portuguese)
v. - devorar

Русский (Russian)
пожирать

Español (Spanish)
v. tr. - devorar, engullir, comer, tragar, absorber

Svenska (Swedish)
v. - sluka, förinta

中文（简体） (Chinese (Simplified))
吞食, 吞没, 挥霍

中文（繁體） (Chinese (Traditional))
v. tr. - 吞食, 吞沒, 揮霍

한국어 (Korean)
v. tr. - 뚫어지게 쳐다보다, (어둠 등이) 집어 삼키다, 게걸스럽게 먹어 치우다

日本語 (Japanese)
v. - むさぼり食う, 滅ぼす, 心をすっかり奪う, むさぼるように読む, 夢中にさせる

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(فعل) يلتهم شئ وبخاصه بسبب الجوع, يفترس, , يقرأ أو ينظر على شئ بتلهف وبسرعه, يبيد‏

עברית (Hebrew)
v. tr. - ‮זלל, אכל, טרף‬

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