devour — Từ điển tiếng Anh

Động từ

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

   Cách dùng

   • ngoại động từ

   Từ đồng nghĩa

   gobblegorgewolfengorge

   Ví dụ

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

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

   Cách dùng

   • idiomatic
   • ngoại động từ

   Từ đồng nghĩa

   consumedevastateoverwhelm

   Ví dụ

   The fire was devouring the building.

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

   Thêm ví dụ (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.

   Cách dùng

   • idiomatic
   • ngoại động từ

   Ví dụ

   She intended to devour the book.

   Thêm ví dụ (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.

   Cách dùng

   • idiomatic
   • ngoại động từ

   Từ đồng nghĩa

   devastateoverwhelm

   Ví dụ

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

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

   Cách dùng

   • Internet
   • nội động từ

   Từ đồng nghĩa

   go hardkick ass

   Ví dụ

   She devoured! She left no crumbs!

Động từ

1. to consume

   Từ có nghĩa rộng hơn

   destroyruin

   Ví dụ

   Fire had devoured our home

2. enjoy avidly

   Từ có nghĩa rộng hơn

   enjoybaskrelishsavorsavour

   Ví dụ

   She devoured his novels

3. eat up completely, as with great appetite

   Từ đồng nghĩa

   demolishdownconsumego through

   Từ có nghĩa rộng hơn

   eat upfinishpolish off

   Ví dụ

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

   The teenagers demolished four pizzas among them

4. eat greedily

   Từ đồng nghĩa

   guttleravenpig

   Từ có nghĩa rộng hơn

   eat

   Ví dụ

   he devoured three sandwiches