devour — قاموس الإنجليزية

فعل

1. To eat quickly, greedily, hungrily, or ravenously.

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   مرادفات

   gobblegorgewolfengorge

   أمثلة

   Once constituted, capital reproduces itself faster than output increases. The past devours the future.

2. To rapidly destroy, engulf, or lay waste.

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   مرادفات

   consumedevastateoverwhelm

   أمثلة

   The fire was devouring the building.

   If ye refuse[…]ye shall be devoured with the sword.

   أمثلة إضافية (1)

   Blast after blast, fiery outbreak after fiery outbreak, like a flaming barrage from within,[…]most of Edison's grounds soon became an inferno. As though on an incendiary rampage, the fires systematically devoured the contents of Edison's headquarters and facilities.

3. To take in avidly with the intellect or with one's gaze.

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   أمثلة

   She intended to devour the book.

   أمثلة إضافية (2)

   Little disappointed, then, she turned attention to "Chat of the Social World," gossip which exercised potent fascination upon the girl's intelligence. She devoured with more avidity than she had her food those pretentiously phrased chronicles of the snobocracy—[…]—distilling therefrom an acid envy that robbed her napoleon of all its flavor.

   My dreams were largely based on the works of Dickens (his Mugby Junction stories), Thackeray (Jeames on the Gauge Question), and Arthur Conan Doyle, whose Sherlock Holmes stories I kept devouring with gluttonous abandon.

4. To absorb or engross the mind fully, especially in a destructive manner.

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   مرادفات

   devastateoverwhelm

   أمثلة

   After the death of his wife, he was devoured by grief.

5. Synonym of eat: to be very good at something; to slay.

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   go hardkick ass

   أمثلة

   She devoured! She left no crumbs!

فعل

1. to consume

   مصطلحات أعمّ

   destroyruin

   أمثلة

   Fire had devoured our home

2. enjoy avidly

   مصطلحات أعمّ

   enjoybaskrelishsavorsavour

   أمثلة

   She devoured his novels

3. eat up completely, as with great appetite

   مرادفات

   demolishdownconsumego through

   مصطلحات أعمّ

   eat upfinishpolish off

   أمثلة

   Some people can down a pound of meat in the course of one meal

   The teenagers demolished four pizzas among them

4. eat greedily

   مرادفات

   guttleravenpig

   مصطلحات أعمّ

   eat

   أمثلة

   he devoured three sandwiches