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Devourer

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de·vour  (d-vour)
tr.v. de·voured, de·vour·ing, de·vours
1. To eat up greedily. See Synonyms at eat.
2. To destroy, consume, or waste: Flames devoured the structure in minutes.
3. To take in eagerly: devour a novel.
4. To prey upon voraciously: was devoured by jealousy.

[Middle English devouren, from Old French devourer, from Latin dvorre : d-, de- + vorre, to swallow.]

de·vourer n.
de·vouring·ly adv.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.devourer - someone who eats greedily or voraciously
eater, feeder - someone who consumes food for nourishment


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And so I could not bring myself to believe that such a gallant tale had been left maimed and mutilated, and I laid the blame on Time, the devourer and destroyer of all things, that had either concealed or consumed it.
" cried Fouquet; "a fellow without a heart, without ideas; a devourer of wealth.
Hepzibah's final operation was with the little devourer of Jim Crow and the elephant, who now proposed to eat a camel.
 
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