devour
Definisie in die woordeboek Engels

devour

dɪˈvaʊ(w)ə(ɹ)

Definisies

To eat quickly, greedily, or hungrily; to eat by swallowing large bits of food with little or no chewing.
To eat quickly, greedily, hungrily, or ravenously.
verb
To rapidly destroy, engulf, or lay waste.
verb

sinonieme

guttle · enjoy · go through · raven · pig · ruin · savor · destroy · eat · savour · relish · consume · bask · down · absorb · engorge · gobble · gorge · mop up · take up · clear · eradicate · exterminate · extirpate · liquidate
guttle · raven · pig
eat greedily; "he devoured three sandwiches"
demolish · down · consume · go through
eat up completely, as with great appetite; "Some people can down a pound of meat in the course of one meal"; "The teenagers demolished four pizzas among them"

grammatika

devour ( third-person singular simple present devours, present participle devouring, simple past and past participle devoured)
devour (third-person singular simple present devours, present participle devouring, simple past and past participle devoured)

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She devoured an entire chicken in one sitting.OpenSubtitles2018.v3 OpenSubtitles2018.v3
Then again, she hasn' t cracked a smile since that shark almost devoured meopensubtitles2 opensubtitles2
Had they been on their own, they probably would have devoured each other.Literature Literature
We saw the Flesh- Devouring Beast swallow youopensubtitles2 opensubtitles2
How many of us would be that concerned over something that wanted to devour us?Literature Literature
“Since the wreck was devoured by a lava flow, we checked the known history of volcanic eruptions on the Big Island.Literature Literature
(Malachi 3:11–12; explain that the devourer refers to Satan.)LDS LDS
Forest will devour.OpenSubtitles2018.v3 OpenSubtitles2018.v3
But I will send a fire upon Moab, and it shall devour the palaces of Kirioth: and Moab shall die with tumult, with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet:langbot langbot
A black hole, devouring all light.Literature Literature
The reason that Vasa was so well-preserved was not just that the shipworm that normally devours wooden ships was absent but also that the water of Stockholms ström was heavily polluted until the late 20th century.WikiMatrix WikiMatrix
That they would be devoured by the jaguar spirit.OpenSubtitles2018.v3 OpenSubtitles2018.v3
The camp-fires, beside which the sentinels sat, were ready to go out at any moment; and even the sentinels slept, having devoured oatmeal and dumplings with true Cossack appetites.chv-corpus chv-corpus
Marius learned how all this is eaten, and how such are often the only things which one has to devour.Literature Literature
Curiosity is a sort of gluttony. To see is to devour.MIZAN MIZAN
My soul is being devoured!OpenSubtitles2018.v3 OpenSubtitles2018.v3
He watched him now as the fascinated toad watches the snake that is about to devour it.Literature Literature
We devour each other like creatures.OpenSubtitles2018.v3 OpenSubtitles2018.v3
The communists will devour the whole world, themselves included.Literature Literature
The Great Eastern had devoured her creator.Literature Literature
The Negro devoured it!OpenSubtitles2018.v3 OpenSubtitles2018.v3
“Generations of teenagers, armed with flashlights, have devoured their favorite stories under the blanket, and by doing so they have laid the basis not only for their literary education but also for their nearsightedness,” states the newsletter.jw2019 jw2019
One of the best-known involves the birth and nurturance of the infant Zeus, who had to be hidden from his devouring father Kronus.WikiMatrix WikiMatrix
You inhabit a world of death and of bodies fighting, killing, and devouring each other.Literature Literature
The intrastate realpolitik would end up devouring the philosophers themselves.WikiMatrix WikiMatrix
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