Devour Synonyms and Antonyms

dĭ-vour
To eat completely or entirely
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. consume
  2. dispatch
  3. eat up
  4. polish off
  5. put away
To do away with completely and destructively
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. eat
  2. consume
  3. swallow
  4. gorge
  5. waste
  6. gulp
  7. annihilate
  8. guttle
  9. down
  10. engulf
  11. gobble
  12. guzzle
  13. ravage
  14. relish
  15. raven
  16. stuff
  17. go through
  18. pig
Antonyms:
  1. abstain
  2. pick
To take (food) into the body as nourishment
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. consume
  2. eat
  3. fare
  4. ingest
  5. partake
  6. chow
To use up foolishly or needlessly
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. consume
  2. dissipate
  3. squander
  4. waste
To be avidly interested in
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. eat up
  2. feast on
  3. relish
To eat up greedily.
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. eat

Words Related to Devour

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Devour Sentence Examples

  • Ant-mimicking spiders have been seen now and again to devour their models.

  • If they had, they would devour all who passed near them.

  • Most earthworms live in the soil, which they devour as they burrow through it.

  • Various species among those that are predaceous attack smaller insects, hunt in packs crustaceans larger than themselves, insert their narrow heads into snail-shells to pick out and devour the occupants, or pursue slugs and earthworms underground.

  • Her eyes widened, then ran over him as if she were appraising a sinful dessert, ready to devour it.

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