What is "devours"

Usage examples of "devours".

These transports, amorous cries, These kisses, tears, desires and heavy sighs, Of all the fire which devours me Could less than even the lightest tokens be.

I am conscious that my beautiful nun sinned against womanly reserve and modesty, the two most beautiful appanages of the fair sex, but if that unique, or at least rare, woman was guilty of an eccentricity which I then thought a virtue, she was at all events exempt from that fearful venom called jealousy--an unhappy passion which devours the miserable being who is labouring under it, and destroys the love that gave it birth.

I am panting for your divine portrait, so as to quench by a sweet illusion the fire which devours my amorous lips.

The abomination feeds on the life force of her motherno, not mother, the unfortunate vessel that once hosted the childyou all shivered at the cannibalism of the Tenescowri, what think you of a creature that so devours the life-soul of the one who birthed it?