devouring

Speech parts

1. devouring - Noun

2. devouring - Verb

4. devouring - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

of Devour

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

avid greedy esurient tinder devourer using fire gluttony relishing guzzle consumption eating feeding consume destructive
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Antonyms

fasting watering soaking dampening wetting moistening
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Phrases with the word

wool-devouring pest fish-devouring corpse-devouring human-devouring

Examples

A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is. Bertrand Russell

When we cannot be delivered from ourselves, we delight in devouring ourselves. Emil Cioran

We have unmistakable proof that throughout all past time, there has been a ceaseless devouring of the weak by the strong. Herbert Spencer

Growing up devouring horror comics and novels, and being inspired to become a writer because of horror novels, movies, and comic books, I always knew I was going to write a horror novel. Colson Whitehead

[P]ride has no intrinsic substance, being no more than the name given to the soul devouring itself. When that loathsome perversion of love has borne its fruit, it has another, more meaningful and weightier name. We call it hatred. Georges Bernanos

This world... belongs to the strong, my friend! The ritual of our existence is based on the strong getting stronger by devouring the weak. Ken Kesey

Close letter words and terms

devourable devourer devouress devouringly devouringness devourment