Devoured

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Devour \De*vour"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Devoured}; p. pr. & vb.
     n. {Devouring}.] [F. d['e]vorer, fr. L. devorare; de + vorare
     to eat greedily, swallow up. See {Voracious}.]
     1. To eat up with greediness; to consume ravenously; to feast
        upon like a wild beast or a glutton; to prey upon.
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              Some evil beast hath devoured him.    --Gen. xxxvii.
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     2. To seize upon and destroy or appropriate greedily,
        selfishly, or wantonly; to consume; to swallow up; to use
        up; to waste; to annihilate.
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              Famine and pestilence shall devour him. --Ezek. vii.
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              I waste my life and do my days devour. --Spenser.
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     3. To enjoy with avidity; to appropriate or take in eagerly
        by the senses.
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              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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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  devoured
       adj : destroyed or wasted as if by eating; "forests devoured by
             flame"; "an inheritance eaten up by debt" [syn: {eaten
             up(p)}]