Crossword clues for devoured
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.]
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To eat up with greediness; to consume ravenously; to feast upon like a wild beast or a glutton; to prey upon.
Some evil beast hath devoured him.
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To seize upon and destroy or appropriate greedily, selfishly, or wantonly; to consume; to swallow up; to use up; to waste; to annihilate.
Famine and pestilence shall devour him.
--Ezek. vii. 15.I waste my life and do my days devour.
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To enjoy with avidity; to appropriate or take in eagerly by the senses.
Longing they look, and gaping at the sight, Devour her o'er with vast delight.
--Dryden.Syn: To consume; waste; destroy; annihilate.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: devour)
WordNet
adj. destroyed or wasted as if by eating; "forests devoured by flame"; "an inheritance eaten up by debt" [syn: eaten up(p)]
Wikipedia
Devoured is a 2012 horror-drama that was directed by Greg Olliver and is his feature film directorial debut. The film had its world premiere on May 6, 2012 at the Bilbao Fantasy Film Festival and stars Marta Milans as a hardworking young woman that begins to experience strange visions.
Usage examples of "devoured".
The mother had devoured the whole of the plentiful helpings I had sent in to her, and she had emptied a bottle of Burgundy, which she carried very well.
Voltaire, who devoured the Bible, and ridiculed our dogmas, doubts, and after having made proselytes to impiety, is not ashamed, being reduced to the extremity of life, to ask for the sacraments, and to cover his body with more relics than St.
Such charms called for my homage, and to begin with I devoured her with kisses.
We had sturgeon and some delicious truffles, which I enjoyed not so much for my own sake as for the pleasure with which my companions devoured them.
For a second course there was a dish of fried pork, which was devoured with great relish.
There was in my mind a curtain dividing truth from error, and reason alone could draw it aside, but that poor reason--I had been taught to fear it, to repulse it, as if its bright flame would have devoured, instead of enlightening me.
The air was full of venomous gnats who devoured us and covered our faces with painful bites.
About him sounded the discordant, machine-like mating cries of creatures trying to serve life in the midst of death and the horrible noises of those who met death and were devoured in the dark.
The frenzied contortions of the grubs told of the agonies they underwent as they were literally devoured alive.
They had passed between the widening furnaces and furiously devoured all that moved as they forged ahead.
It seemed to consider that an enemy had been conquered and devoured and that normal life could go on.
And the giant millipede would have devoured them all, but that Burl gave commands and set the example, and he had marched magnificently up the mountainside when it seemed that all the cosmos twisted and prepared to drop them into an inverted sky.
It appeared that he had caught and devoured the creature which had drawn blood from Bordman.
One by one they sat down and were left behind to die, or to be devoured by the wild beasts before they were dead.
The lions had disappeared, and they walked out to where the old lion had made his meal, and found that he had devoured nearly the whole of the ox.