Devoured Synonyms and Antonyms

To do away with completely and destructively
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. eaten
  2. wasted
  3. swallowed
  4. gulped
  5. stuffed
  6. relished
  7. ravaged
  8. gobbled
  9. gorged
  10. consumed
  11. engulfed
  12. annihilated
Antonyms:
  1. picked
To be avidly interested in
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. relished
To use up foolishly or needlessly
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. wasted
  2. squandered
  3. dissipated
  4. consumed
To take (food) into the body as nourishment
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. partaken
  2. ingested
  3. fared
  4. eaten
  5. consumed
Eat immoderately
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. dispatched
  2. consumed
  3. downed

Words Related to Devoured

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Devoured Sentence Examples

  • The men silently devoured their food and then helped her clean up the camp.

  • She devoured the steaks.

  • To avenge the death of his son, Minos demanded that seven Athenian youths and seven maidens should be sent every ninth year to be devoured by the Minotaur.

  • Meanwhile his indiscriminate appetite for reading had begun to fix itself more and more decidedly upon history; and the list of historical works devoured by him during this period of chronic ill-health is simply astonishing.

  • Pyramus, believing that she had been devoured by the lion, stabbed himself.

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