What does devour mean?

Definitions for devour
dɪˈvaʊrde·vour

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. devourverb

    destroy completely

    "Fire had devoured our home"

  2. devourverb

    enjoy avidly

    "She devoured his novels"

  3. devour, down, consume, go throughverb

    eat immoderately

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

  4. devour, guttle, raven, pigverb

    eat greedily

    "he devoured three sandwiches"

Wiktionary

  1. devourverb

    To eat quickly, greedily, hungrily, or ravenously.

  2. devourverb

    To rapidly destroy, engulf, or lay waste.

    The fire was devouring the building.

  3. devourverb

    To take in avidly with the intellect.

    She intended to devour the book.

  4. devourverb

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

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

  5. Etymology: devourer, devorer (Modern French dévorer), from devoro, from voro.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. To DEVOURverb

    Etymology: devoro, Latin.

    We will say some evil beast hath devoured him Gen. xxxvii.

    We’ve willing dames enough: there cannot be
    That vulture in you to devour so many
    As will to greatness dedicate themselves,
    Finding it so inclin’d. William Shakespeare, Macbeth.

    So looks the pent up lion o’er the wretch
    That trembles under his devouring paws. William Shakespeare, Henry VI.

    A fire devoureth before them, and behind them a flame burneth. Joel ii. 3.

    How dire a tempest from Mycenæ pour’d,
    Our plains, our temples, and our town devour’d;
    It was the waste of war. John Dryden, Æn. b. viii.

    Notwithstanding that Socrates lived in the time of this devouring pestilence at Athens, he never caught the least infection. Joseph Addison, Spectator, №. 195.

    He seemed in swiftness to devour the way William Shakespeare.

    Such a pleasure as grows fresher upon enjoyment; and though continually fed upon, yet is never devoured. South.

    Death stalks behind thee, and each flying hour
    Does some loose remnant of thy life devour. Dryden.

Wikipedia

  1. Devour

    Devour is a song by American rock band Shinedown. The song was released as the first single in promotion of the band's third studio album, The Sound of Madness. The track landed online and at multi-format rock radio outlets nationwide on May 5. As has been the case with other new singles by bands such as Disturbed, Theory of a Deadman, and Seether, "Devour" is so far Shinedown's fastest rising single to date, reaching the top five of the Billboard Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart in four weeks. In a No. 1 countdown interview, vocalist Brent Smith said that the single was "a letter to the President," and that it is about Smith's distaste towards George W. Bush. It is their second No. 1 song on the Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart.

ChatGPT

  1. devour

    To devour something means to eat it quickly and hungrily. It can also mean to consume or use something up rapidly and completely, or to focus oneself on an activity or interest eagerly or obsessively.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Devourverb

    to eat up with greediness; to consume ravenously; to feast upon like a wild beast or a glutton; to prey upon

  2. Devourverb

    to seize upon and destroy or appropriate greedily, selfishly, or wantonly; to consume; to swallow up; to use up; to waste; to annihilate

  3. Devourverb

    to enjoy with avidity; to appropriate or take in eagerly by the senses

Wikidata

  1. Devour

    Devour is a 2005 horror film directed by David Winkler.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Devour

    de-vowr′, v.t. to swallow greedily: to eat up: to consume or waste with violence or wantonness: to destroy: to gaze intently on.—n. Devour′er.—adj. Devour′ing.—adv. Devour′ingly.—n. Devour′ment. [O. Fr. devorer—L. devorārede, inten., and vorāre, to swallow. See Voracious.]

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of devour in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of devour in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of devour in a Sentence

  1. Proverb:

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

  2. Amaro Lopes de Souza:

    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.

  3. 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.

  4. Proverb:

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

  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.

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