verb [VN]
1 to eat all of sth quickly especially because you are very hungry:
He devoured half of his burger in one bite.
2 to read or look at sth with great interest and enthusiasm:
She devoured everything she could lay her hands on: books, magazines and newspapers.
3 (formal) to destroy sb/sth:
Flames devoured the house.
IDIOMS
be devoured by sth to be filled with a strong emotion that seems to control you:
She was devoured by envy and hatred.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for devour is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does devour appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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