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devoured Definition and Meaning in English (devoured definition)

verb
Synonyms:ateconsumedgobbled
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Devoured definition: To eat food or prey quickly and completely, often with great hunger or eagerness.

Definitions of Devoured

  1. 1verb

    To eat food or prey quickly and completely, often with great hunger or eagerness.

  2. 2verb

    To consume or destroy something completely, often in a figurative sense, such as a fire consuming a building or a book consuming one's attention.

Example Sentences

casual

“The hungry children devoured their dinner in minutes.”

general

“The fire quickly devoured the old wooden house.”

general

“She devoured every book in the library, eager for knowledge.”

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Inflected Word Forms

infinitivedevour
third person singulardevours
present participledevouring
agent noundevourer
adjectivedevourable

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Devoured definition: To eat food or prey quickly and completely, often with great hunger or eagerness.
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'Devoured' translates to 'devoured' in English. Devoured definition: To eat food or prey quickly and completely, often with great hunger or eagerness.
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