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.
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Some evil beast hath devoured him. --Gen. xxxvii.
20.
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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.
15.
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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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