devoured

Meaning

of Devour

Synonyms

Examples

It is better to fall in with crows than with flatterers; for in the one case you are devoured when dead, in the other case while alive. Antisthenes

Even in those cities which seem to enjoy the blessings of peace, and where the arts florish, the inhabitants are devoured by envy, cares and anxieties, which are greater plagues than any expirienced in a town when it is under siege. Voltaire

Macbeth's self-justifications were feeble - and his conscience devoured him. Yes, even Iago was a little lamb too. The imagination and the spiritual strength of Shakespeare's evildoers stopped short at a dozen corpses. Because they had no ideology. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The rich devour the poor, and the devil devours the rich and so both are devoured. Dutch Proverb

If the leader is being devoured by a fire, those behind him don't say: "Where is the leader?" Sumerian Proverb

A lamb [sheep] away from the herd will be devoured by wolves. Turkish Proverb