Devour
To eat up with greediness; to consume ravenously; to feast upon like a wild beast or a glutton; to prey upon.
To seize upon and destroy or appropriate greedily, selfishly, or wantonly; to consume; to swallow up; to use up; to waste; to annihilate.
To enjoy with avidity; to appropriate or take in eagerly by the senses.
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Devour Quotations
Let my enemies devour each other.
Salvador Dali
The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.
Bertrand Russell
Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.
Honore de Balzac
Knowledge is not eating, and we cannot expect to devour and possess what we mean. Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.
George Santayana
What's going on in this country? Unions stand against those trends. We've got to somehow insulate the robust American economy from this global economy that seems to want to devour our standard of living.
James P. Hoffa
Among the weeds choking out growth and good government are the hundreds of boards, commissions, and advisory committees that have sprouted over the years. They devour time, money, and energy far beyond any real contribution they make.
Mitch Daniels
The product of the artist has become less important than the fact of the artist. We wish to absorb this person. We wish to devour someone who has experienced the tragic. In our society this person is much more important than anything he might create.
David Mamet
There is a point at which methods devour themselves.
Frantz Fanon
They are feeding the world that will devour them and their children.
Barbara Amiel
They eat the dainty food of famous chefs with the same pleasure with which they devour gross peasant dishes, mostly composed of garlic and tomatoes, or fisherman's octopus and shrimps, fried in heavily scented olive oil on a little deserted beach.
Luigi Barzini
Devour Translations
devour in French is empiffrer
devour in German is verschlingen, verschlingen, auffressen
devour in Italian is divorare
devour in Latin is edo edi essum
devour in Norwegian is sluke
devour in Spanish is devorar
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