Found 4 items, similar to devour.
English → Indonesian (Kamus Landak) Definition: devour melahap
English → Indonesian (quick) Definition: devour ganyang, menelan, mengasyiki, mengganyang
English → English (WordNet) Definition: devour devour v 1: destroy completely; “Fire had devoured our home” 2: enjoy avidly; “She devoured his novels” 3: eat immoderately; “Some people can down a pound of meat in the course of one meal” [syn: down, consume, go through ] 4: eat greedily; “he devoured three sandwiches” [syn: guttle, raven, pig]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Devour 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. [1913 Webster] Some evil beast hath devoured him. --Gen. xxxvii. 20. [1913 Webster] 2. To seize upon and destroy or appropriate greedily, selfishly, or wantonly; to consume; to swallow up; to use up; to waste; to annihilate. [1913 Webster] Famine and pestilence shall devour him. --Ezek. vii. 15. [1913 Webster] I waste my life and do my days devour. --Spenser. [1913 Webster] 3. To enjoy with avidity; to appropriate or take in eagerly by the senses. [1913 Webster] Longing they look, and gaping at the sight, Devour her o'er with vast delight. --Dryden. Syn: To consume; waste; destroy; annihilate. [1913 Webster]