'Devouring' definitions:
Definition of 'devouring'
From: WordNet
Definition of 'Devouring'
From: GCIDE
- 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.]
- 1. To eat up with greediness; to consume ravenously; to feast upon like a wild beast or a glutton; to prey upon. [1913 Webster]
- Some evil beast hath devoured him. --Gen. xxxvii. 20. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To seize upon and destroy or appropriate greedily, selfishly, or wantonly; to consume; to swallow up; to use up; to waste; to annihilate. [1913 Webster]
- Famine and pestilence shall devour him. --Ezek. vii. 15. [1913 Webster]
- I waste my life and do my days devour. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To enjoy with avidity; to appropriate or take in eagerly by the senses. [1913 Webster]
- Longing they look, and gaping at the sight, Devour her o'er with vast delight. --Dryden.
- Syn: To consume; waste; destroy; annihilate. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'devouring'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- a hog for,
- acquisitive,
- all-devouring,
- appetite,
- avaricious,
- avid,
- bottomless,
- cannibalism,
- carnivorism,
- carnivority,
- carnivorousness,
- chewing,
- consumption,
- coveting,
- covetous,
- cropping,
- deglutition,
- devourment,
- dieting,
- dining,
- eating,
- epulation,
- esurient,
- feasting,
- feeding,
- gluttonous,
- gluttony,
- gobbling,
- grabby,
- grasping,
- grazing,
- greedy,
- herbivorism,
- herbivority,
- herbivorousness,
- hoggish,
- hunger,
- ingestion,
- insatiable,
- insatiate,
- licking,
- limitless,
- manducation,
- mastication,
- mercenary,
- messing,
- miserly,
- money-hungry,
- money-mad,
- munching,
- nibbling,
- nutrition,
- omnivorism,
- omnivorous,
- omnivorousness,
- omophagy,
- overgreedy,
- pantophagy,
- pasture,
- pasturing,
- pecking,
- piggish,
- quenchless,
- rapacious,
- ravening,
- ravenous,
- regalement,
- relishing,
- rumination,
- savoring,
- slakeless,
- sordid,
- swinish,
- tasting,
- unappeasable,
- unappeased,
- unquenchable,
- unsated,
- unsatisfied,
- unslakeable,
- unslaked,
- vegetarianism,
- venal,
- voracious,
- wolfing