Devour /(?)/

De·vour

Devour

v. t.

imp. & p. p. Devoured; p. pr. & vb. n. Devouring

  1. To eat up with greediness; to consume ravenously; to feast upon like a wild beast or a glutton; to prey upon.
    Some evil beast hath devoured him.
    — Gen. xxxvii. 20.
  2. To seize upon and destroy or appropriate greedily, selfishly, or wantonly; to consume; to swallow up; to use up; to waste; to annihilate.
    Famine and pestilence shall devour him.
    — Ezek. vii. 15.
    I waste my life and do my days devour.
  3. To enjoy with avidity; to appropriate or take in eagerly by the senses.
    Longing they look, and gaping at the sight, Devour her o'er with vast delight.