devour

devour is a 6-letter English word with 7 senses as transitive verb and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To eat up with greediness; to consume ravenously; to feast upon like a wild beast or a glutton; to prey upon. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 12 · 7 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To eat up with greediness; to consume ravenously; to feast upon like a wild beast or a glutton; to prey upon.
2. transitive verb. To seize upon and destroy or appropriate greedily, selfishly, or wantonly; to consume; to swallow up; to use up; to waste; to annihilate.
3. transitive verb. To enjoy with avidity; to appropriate or take in eagerly by the senses.
4. verb. eat greedily

   "he devoured three sandwiches"

   Synonyms: guttle, pig, raven

5. verb. eat immoderately

   "Some people can down a pound of meat in the course of one meal"

   Synonyms: consume, down

6. verb. destroy completely

   "Fire had devoured our home"

7. verb. enjoy avidly

   "She devoured his novels"

Synonyms

guttle, pig, raven, consume, down

Common word forms

devours, devoured, devourer, devouring, devourable, devourment

Words from these letters

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