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Devours

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guttleverb(transitive) Often followed by down or up: to swallow (something) greedily; to gobble, to guzzle.
gulpverbTo swallow eagerly, or in large draughts; to swallow up; to take down in one swallow.
consumeverb(transitive) To eat.
downverb(transitive) To knock (someone or something) down; to cause to come down; to fell.
pigverb(intransitive) To greedily consume (especially food).
go throughverb(transitive) To examine or scrutinize (a number or series of things).
ravenverb(transitive, intransitive, sometimes with "up", "down", "in", etc) To devour with great eagerness; to feed (on something) hungrily or greedily.
absorbsverb(transitive) To include so that it no longer has separate existence; to overwhelm; to cause to disappear as if by swallowing up; to incorporate; to assimilate; to take in and use up.
burnsnounRobert Burns, Scottish writer.
combustsverbTo burn; to catch fire.
cutsnoun(Australia, New Zealand, dated or historical, with "the") Corporal punishment at school.
eatsnoun(colloquial) Food.
engulfsverb(transitive) To surround; to cover; to submerge.
gobblesverbTo eat hastily or greedily; to scoff or scarf (often used with up)
swallowsverb(transitive) To cause (food, drink etc.) to pass from the mouth into the stomach; to take into the stomach through the throat.
chewsverbTo crush with the teeth by repeated closing and opening of the jaws; done to food to soften it and break it down by the action of saliva before it is swallowed.
smothersverb(transitive) To suffocate; stifle; obstruct, more or less completely, the respiration of something or someone.
consumesverb(transitive) To eat.
decimatesverb(loosely) To devastate: to reduce or destroy significantly but not completely.
destroysverb(ambitransitive) To damage beyond use or repair; to damage (something) to the point that it effectively ceases to exist.

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