de·vour /dɪˈvaʊ(ə)r, di-/
(vt.)吞食,揮霍,吞沒
De·vour v. t. [imp. & p. p. Devoured p. pr. & vb. n. Devouring.]
1. 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. --Gen. xxxvii. 20.
2. 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. --Ezek. vii. 15.
I waste my life and do my days devour. --Spenser.
3. 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. --Dryden.
Syn: -- To consume; waste; destroy; annihilate.
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devour
v 1: destroy completely; "Fire had devoured our home"
2: enjoy avidly; "She devoured his novels"
3: eat immoderately; "Some people can down a pound of meat in
the course of one meal" [syn: down, consume, go
through]
4: eat greedily; "he devoured three sandwiches" [syn: guttle,
raven, pig]