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What does devour mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word devour? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. To eat quickly, greedily, hungrily, or ravenously.
  2. To rapidly destroy, engulf, or lay waste.
  3. To take in avidly with the intellect or with one's gaze.
  4. To absorb or engross the mind fully, especially in a destructive manner.
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When she is writing poetry she will devour novels, biographies and short stories.
The rats scurry around ravenously, and the narrator realizes that they are waiting to devour his warm, dead flesh.
There are 350 pages to devour, along with plenty of photos of six-guns, single shots, cowboy guns, replicas, autos and more.
My one true passion at the time was to devour anything with abnormally large amounts of sugar, chocolate or toffee.
Anteaters have long snouts which they thrust into ant-heaps in order to devour the ants or termites.
Cooking a massive stack of Anzac biscuits for my workmates to devour tomorrow, and only burning a couple.

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