Devouring Synonyms and Antonyms

To be avidly interested in
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. relishing
To use up foolishly or needlessly
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. wasting
  2. squandering
  3. dissipating
  4. consuming
To take (food) into the body as nourishment
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. partaking
  2. ingesting
  3. faring
  4. eating
  5. consuming
Eat immoderately
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. dispatching
  2. consuming
  3. downing
Antonyms:
  1. picking
  2. abstaining
(often followed by `for') ardently or excessively desirous
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. annihilatory
  2. consuming
  3. avid
  4. corrosive
  5. edacious
  6. esurient
  7. gluttonous
  8. voracious
  9. greedy

Words Related to Devouring

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.

Devouring Sentence Examples

  • Ten minutes later, she sat at a picnic table, devouring the crispy-sweet treats.

  • It took every ounce of her willpower to keep from devouring his body with her eyes.

  • He leaned forward, picked up his fork and began devouring his supper without further comment.

  • Sculptured panels, with conventional motives, peacocks, eagles devouring hares, peacocks drinking from a cup on a tall pillar, are let into both exterior and interior walls, as are roundels of precious marbles, sawn from columns of porphyry, serpentine, verd antique, &c. The adoption of veneer for decoration prohibited any deep cutting, and almost all the sculpture is shallow.

  • More often than not, you'll find that reluctant reader is avidly devouring all things in print or that shy child is blossoming with a few friends.

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