Word Definition

Devour

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