devour
di vow er
- v destroy completely
Fire had devoured our home - v enjoy avidly
She devoured his novels - v eat immoderately
- v eat greedily
he devoured three sandwiches
- The best cure for destructive sprawl is to build cities people don't want to abandon, places where they can live healthy, fulfilling lives in densities that don't devour our .
- But get rid of all the gossypol, as plant breeders did in the 1950s, and insects will devour the defenseless cotton.
- Most important, they devour carbon dioxide, the primary culprit in global warming.