DEVOUR | definition in the Cambridge English Dictionary
Meaning of devour in English
eat What do you want to eat for lunch? have I'll just have one more piece of chocolate cake. consume He consumes vast quantities of bread with every meal. devour The children devoured a whole box of cookies. bolt (down) Don't bolt down your food - you'll make yourself sick! gobble (up/down) The children gobbled their sweets.
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(Definition of devour from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
Examples of devour
devour
I hope you will pay attention to this being drought devouring the place.
Insects are devouring her crop this year, so she thinks she'll have to go into debt again.
I devoured the songs on the record, and within a few weeks was playing along to it in its entirety as well.
I loved taking all our little white bags of goodies to the car and then home to devour .
That's where she spends most of her time -- using the computer, applying for jobs, devouring books.
Psychosis arrives in a person's psyche at conception via genetic transmission -- heredity -- and it devours character.
Otherwise, the burgeoning business of nepotism will completely devour the rule of law.
I devoured it and then flipped back to the beginning and read it again.
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Translations of devour
in Chinese (Traditional)
狼吞虎嚥，吞食, 吞噬，毀滅, 如饑似渴地閱讀…
in Chinese (Simplified)
狼吞虎咽，吞食, 吞噬，毁灭, 如饥似渴地阅读…
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devorar, zamparse, consumir…
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devorar, tomar…
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（物）をがつがつ食べる, むさぼり食（く）う, むさぼり読（よ）む…
tınımak, kıtlıktan çıkmış gibi yemek, yutmak…
sluke, fortære, kaste i seg…
поглощать (пищу), проглатывать (книгу)…
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