De*vour" (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Devoured (?);
p. pr. & vb. n.
Devouring.]
[F. dévorer, 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.
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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