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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To eat up greedily. See Synonyms at eat.
  2. v. To destroy, consume, or waste: Flames devoured the structure in minutes.
  3. v. To take in eagerly: devour a novel.
  4. v. To prey upon voraciously: was devoured by jealousy.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To eat up entirely; eat ravenously; consume as food.
  2. To consume destructively, recklessly, or wantonly; make away with; destroy; waste.
  3. To swallow up, literally or figuratively; draw into conjunction or possession; absorb; engorge; take in: as, to devour a book; the usurers have devoured his estate.
  4. To gaze at absorbingly; look upon with avidity; view with delight.
  5. To give delight to; charm; enchant.
  6. Synonyms Consume, etc. See eat.
  7. To consume.
  8. n. See dever.

Wiktionary

  1. v. To eat quickly, greedily, hungrily, or ravenously.
  2. v. To rapidly destroy, engulf, or lay waste.
  3. v. To take in avidly with the intellect.
  4. v. To absorb or engross the mind fully, especially in a destructive manner.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To eat up with greediness; to consume ravenously; to feast upon like a wild beast or a glutton; to prey upon.
  2. v. To seize upon and destroy or appropriate greedily, selfishly, or wantonly; to consume; to swallow up; to use up; to waste; to annihilate.
  3. v. To enjoy with avidity; to appropriate or take in eagerly by the senses.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. eat greedily
  2. v. destroy completely
  3. v. enjoy avidly
  4. v. eat immoderately

Etymologies

  1. Anglo-Norman devourer, Old French devorer (Modern French dévorer), from Latin dēvorō, from vorō. (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English devouren, from Old French devourer, from Latin dēvorāre : dē-, de- + vorāre, to swallow. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • bilby
    there is a dragon
    devouring rocks and men
    causing insanity
    destroying peaceful lives
    and calling itself love

    - Rumi, ghazal number 2157 in 'Fountain of Fire', translated by Nader Khalili. Oct 26, 2008

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