Definition of Devour

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Devour

To eat up with greediness; to consume ravenously; to feast upon like a wild beast or a glutton; to prey upon.

To seize upon and destroy or appropriate greedily, selfishly, or wantonly; to consume; to swallow up; to use up; to waste; to annihilate.

To enjoy with avidity; to appropriate or take in eagerly by the senses.

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Devour Quotations

Let my enemies devour each other.
Salvador Dali

Knowledge is not eating, and we cannot expect to devour and possess what we mean. Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.
George Santayana

The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.
Bertrand Russell

Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.
Honore de Balzac

There is a point at which methods devour themselves.
Frantz Fanon

The product of the artist has become less important than the fact of the artist. We wish to absorb this person. We wish to devour someone who has experienced the tragic. In our society this person is much more important than anything he might create.
David Mamet

They are feeding the world that will devour them and their children.
Barbara Amiel

Among the weeds choking out growth and good government are the hundreds of boards, commissions, and advisory committees that have sprouted over the years. They devour time, money, and energy far beyond any real contribution they make.
Mitch Daniels

They eat the dainty food of famous chefs with the same pleasure with which they devour gross peasant dishes, mostly composed of garlic and tomatoes, or fisherman's octopus and shrimps, fried in heavily scented olive oil on a little deserted beach.
Luigi Barzini

If I leave, reality will devour me. Then they will all really be dead.
Asne Seierstad

Devour Translations

devour in French is empiffrer
devour in German is verschlingen, verschlingen, auffressen
devour in Italian is divorare
devour in Latin is edo edi essum
devour in Norwegian is sluke
devour in Spanish is devorar

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