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Devour

Devour meaning

To eat quickly, greedily, hungrily, or ravenously. | To rapidly destroy, engulf, or lay waste. | To take in avidly with the intellect or with one's gaze.

Example sentences (20)

A spokesperson for the festival said: "The Dine 'N' Devour Food & Artisan Festival invites everyone to a tantalising array of street food delights.

Come at “Enslaved” with that in mind: devour it, perhaps, or switch it out and put it back.

It could devour a killer whale effortlessly, but new evidence suggests that its cousin, the great white shark, may have caused its extinction.

Mr. Mind's goals were simple: to enter its chrysalis and devour universes in its final form.

Now indentured to Galactus, the Surfer would scour the cosmos for planets for his master to devour - until he came to Earth.

The kids devour them any which way — including cold, straight out of the fridge — as long as ketchup is involved.

The spongy month—the name of which the Entomological Society of America last year because it was hurtful to the Romani people—is capable of defoliating hundreds of tree and shrub species, its larvae can practically devour entire trees.

They are like dogs who protect their puppies, but devour the offsprings of grass cutters.

Unfortunately, she doesn’t know the “” rule, and after prodding the zombie with her foot, it gets back up to devour her.

Whatever you get involved with over coming months, can devour your interest.

While I had agreed to this trip thinking I would devour mangoes, today’s outing had taken a different turn.

But both the film and the Ripley novels I went on to devour understood the inherent appeal of a swindler who carries it off.

From the raw elements of our planet have emerged zillions of biological entities that ceaselessly devour, transfigure and replenish its rock, water and air.

If you're one of the few people who manage not to devour an entire bag at once, a viral tip from TikTok can keep your sweets fresh - and it's a method that's been there "all this time".

In early drafts of "Dune," Herbert combined all of these stages into the life cycle of the giant sandworms, football field-sized monsters that prowl the desert sands and devour everything in their path.

In my opinion Christmas would not be the same without trying to devour my bodyweight in mince pies.

It's estimated that one bat can devour as many as 3,000 midges a night.

One, a "serial killer" black hole, is about to devour its second star within five years, while the other, part of the newly discovered triple system V404 Cygni, has disrupted long-held theories of black hole formation.

On the menu at the new coffee shop, named Part 2, you’ll find coffees, ice coffees, hot chocolates and soft drinks to slurp, and paninis, bagels and croissants to devour.

On this new album, one song, Where My Love Belongs, takes as its subject the helplessness Kempston felt when becoming a parent ("Should I read a manual, devour many texts?