Dictionary Entry
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
- 1transitive verb
To eat up with greediness; to consume ravenously; to feast upon like a wild beast or a glutton; to prey upon.
- 2transitive verb
To seize upon and destroy or appropriate greedily, selfishly, or wantonly; to consume; to swallow up; to use up; to waste; to annihilate.
- 3transitive verb
To enjoy with avidity; to appropriate or take in eagerly by the senses.
- 4verb
eat greedily
"he devoured three sandwiches"
- 5verb
eat immoderately
"Some people can down a pound of meat in the course of one meal"
- 6verb
destroy completely
"Fire had devoured our home"
- 7verb
enjoy avidly
"She devoured his novels"
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