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  • noun Plural form of devourer.

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Examples

  • Normally, the motion of your blood, the building up by assimilation of your muscles and nerves, the life of your cells, the protective action of some of the living cells in your body -- the "devourers," as they are called -- go on without your knowledge, without your thought, without your giving one moment's conscious attention to them.

    London Lectures of 1907 Annie Wood Besant 1890

  • The last three devourers surrounded the charr, though.

    GuildWars Edge of Destiny J. Robert King 2011

  • The last three devourers surrounded the charr, though.

    GuildWars Edge of Destiny J. Robert King 2011

  • A half dozen devourers swelled out of the darkness.

    GuildWars Edge of Destiny J. Robert King 2011

  • A half dozen devourers swelled out of the darkness.

    GuildWars Edge of Destiny J. Robert King 2011

  • “You deliver the killing blow—like with the devourers.”

    GuildWars Edge of Destiny J. Robert King 2011

  • For these devourers, the weak point is where the two tails diverge.

    GuildWars Edge of Destiny J. Robert King 2011

  • Logan hissed as a pair of devourers scuttled up to him.

    GuildWars Edge of Destiny J. Robert King 2011

  • Warmarshal Rairon charged into the clearing, past dismembered devourers and slain hyenas.

    GuildWars Edge of Destiny J. Robert King 2011

  • I have seen you slay devourers and destroyers, centaurs and ettins and worse.

    GuildWars Edge of Destiny J. Robert King 2011

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