DEVOURING • DICTIONARY ONE.COM • Definition of Devouring

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/dɪvˈaʊərɪŋ/ Listen

verb

Devour v. t. (past & past part. devoured; pres. part. devouring)

To eat up with greediness; to consume ravenously; to feast upon like a wild beast or a glutton; to prey upon. "Some evil beast hath devoured him."

To seize upon and destroy or appropriate greedily, selfishly, or wantonly; to consume; to swallow up; to use up; to waste; to annihilate. "Famine and pestilence shall devour him." "I waste my life and do my days devour."

To enjoy with avidity; to appropriate or take in eagerly by the senses. "Longing they look, and gaping at the sight, Devour her o'er with vast delight."

Synonyms: To consume; waste; destroy; annihilate.

See images of 'Devouring'

Etymology of 'Devouring'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

Share |

Add this dictionary
to your browser search bar

"Devouring" Quotes from Famous Books

... the opposite side of the hearth, was a little boy and girl, quite naked to the waist from whence hung a little dirty tunic to their bare knees. A tin pan of raw potatoes lay between them, which they were slicing off with a great knife, and greedily devouring, as if they ...

— Little Ferns For Fanny's Little Friends • Fanny Fern

... succeeded in capturing his prey, and has satisfied his appetite by devouring a portion of its carcass, he leaves the remainder for a second meal, and his early return to a second banquet is almost a matter of certainty. Where such a remnant of a bygone feast is found, the capture of the Cougar ...

— Camp Life in the Woods and the Tricks of Trapping and Trap Making • William Hamilton Gibson

... to his eager eyes, having no words to say, overcome by the joy that surged through him like a mighty rush of waters. In the moment's glorious certainty he rested until she stirred nervously under his devouring look, and spoke. ...

— The Lions of the Lord - A Tale of the Old West • Harry Leon Wilson

... back from her face. She spoke little, but her dark eyes were fixed with devouring eagerness upon the door by which she knew Pierre would come in. Her aunt supported her head upon her shoulder, while Heloise knelt at her knee and fanned her with sisterly tenderness, whispering words of sisterly sympathy ...

— The Golden Dog - Le Chien d'Or • William Kirby

... have to fag them," answered East, without looking up from an early number of "Pickwick," which was just coming out, and which he was luxuriously devouring, stretched on ...

— Tom Brown's Schooldays • Thomas Hughes

More quotes...