💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Devours"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| guttleverb | (transitive) Often followed by down or up: to swallow (something) greedily; to gobble, to guzzle. |
| gulpverb | To 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. |
| burnsnoun | Robert Burns, Scottish writer. |
| combustsverb | To 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. |
| gobblesverb | To 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. |
| chewsverb | To 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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