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Synonyms for devour
dɪˈvaʊrde·vour

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Wiktionary3.5 / 4 votes

  1. devourverb

    Synonyms:
    gorge, consume, devastate, gobble, overwhelm

  2. devourverb

    To eat quickly, greedily, hungrily, or ravenously.

    Synonyms:
    gobble, overwhelm, devastate, gorge, consume

  3. devourverb

    To rapidly destroy, engulf, or lay waste.

    The fire was devouring the building.

    Synonyms:
    consume, gorge, devastate, gobble, overwhelm

  4. devourverb

    To take in avidly with the intellect.

    She intended to devour the book.

    Synonyms:
    overwhelm, gorge, gobble, consume, devastate

  5. devourverb

    To absorb or engross the mind fully, especially in a destructive manner.

    After the death of his wife, he was devoured by grief.

    Synonyms:
    consume, devastate, gorge, overwhelm, gobble

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms3.4 / 10 votes

  1. devour

    Synonyms:
    eat, consume, swallow, gorge, gobble, bolt, absorb

    Antonyms:
    disgorge, vomit

Princeton's WordNet3.7 / 3 votes

  1. devourverb

    destroy completely

    "Fire had devoured our home"

    Synonyms:
    go through, down, guttle, pig, raven, consume

  2. devourverb

    enjoy avidly

    "She devoured his novels"

    Synonyms:
    go through, down, guttle, pig, raven, consume

  3. devour, down, consume, go throughverb

    eat immoderately

    "Some people can down a pound of meat in the course of one meal"

    Synonyms:
    land, take in, eat up, pull down, exhaust, ware, put through, eat, pass, push down, kill, go through, follow out, take, have, belt down, waste, use up, drink down, see, shoot down, cut down, ingest, go across, run through, toss off, pour down, follow up, follow through, squander, guttle, wipe out, carry out, down, bolt down, refine, raven, experience, pop, work through, fine-tune, knock down, consume, pig, implement, deplete, polish

  4. devour, guttle, raven, pigverb

    eat greedily

    "he devoured three sandwiches"

    Synonyms:
    pig it, guttle, pig, down, go through, consume, farrow, predate, prey, raven

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Editors Contribution0.0 / 0 votes

  1. mop

    eating with breathtaking ferocity .

    i’m so hungry im going to mop this plate!

    Submitted by rinat on August 15, 2019  

Dictionary of English Synonymes5.0 / 1 vote

  1. devourverb

    Synonyms:
    gorge, engorge, eat heartily, swallow eagerly

  2. devourverb

    Synonyms:
    destroy, consume, waste, spend, expend, swallow up

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. devourverb

    Synonyms:
    consume

PPDB, the paraphrase database2.7 / 3 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "devour":

    eat

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How to use devour in a sentence?

  1. Henry Ward Beecher:

    The power of hiding ourselves from one another is mercifully given, for men are wild beasts, and would devour one another but for this protection.

  2. Proverb:

    The rich devour the poor, and the devil devours the rich and so both are devoured.

  3. Amaro Lopes de Souza:

    Those who are destroying the Amazon are the big farms, and it's those big farmers who made (Bolsonaro) president. Now, they think they can deforest and burn and devour everything.

  4. Victor Hugo, "Les Miserables":

    The peasants of the Asturias believe that in every litter of wolves there is one pup that is killed by the mother for fear that on growing up it would devour the other little ones.

  5. Socrates:

    Snowmen come to life during the full moon to devour children.


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