1
as in to consume
to destroy all trace of
a series of devastating storms devoured the beach on the south side of the island
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as in to spend
to make complete use of
a catastrophic medical event that devoured their savings
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Recent Examples of devour
Start your spray program for peaches and plums to protect them from plum curculios — the worms that devour the fruit.
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Neil Sperry, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 28 Feb. 2025
People don’t even want wedding rings from marriages that ended in divorce, much less a trinket that was once worn by one girl who froze to death and another girl who was ritualistically murdered and devoured by other humans.
—Erin Qualey, Vulture, 21 Feb. 2025
Your captain will dangle chicken parts on a line over the water and a gator is likely to jump up out of the water and devour that piece of chicken!
—Gqlshare, Orange County Register, 19 Feb. 2025
By the time the brigade arrived, the school was ablaze and reports came in that flames were devouring an area called the Alphabet Streets.
—Stephen Rodrick, Rolling Stone, 13 Feb. 2025
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Neil Sperry, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 28 Feb. 2025
People don’t even want wedding rings from marriages that ended in divorce, much less a trinket that was once worn by one girl who froze to death and another girl who was ritualistically murdered and devoured by other humans.
—Erin Qualey, Vulture, 21 Feb. 2025
Your captain will dangle chicken parts on a line over the water and a gator is likely to jump up out of the water and devour that piece of chicken!
—Gqlshare, Orange County Register, 19 Feb. 2025
By the time the brigade arrived, the school was ablaze and reports came in that flames were devouring an area called the Alphabet Streets.
—Stephen Rodrick, Rolling Stone, 13 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for devour
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One in three consumes four or more drinks per week.—
Kristen Mascia,
Parents,
4 Mar. 2025
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Data centers supporting these operations also consume vast amounts of water for cooling purposes, with each inference of 20–50 queries on a large language model using approximately 500 milliliters of water.—
Monica Sanders,
Forbes,
4 Mar. 2025
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Edman spent much of the winter seemingly pegged to be the club’s everyday center fielder, with a chance to work into the infield mix occasionally.—
Fabian Ardaya,
The Athletic,
3 Mar. 2025
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That tune has now spent 28 frames somewhere on the country ranking, and lands at its all-time peak of No. 13 this time around.—
Hugh McIntyre,
Forbes,
2 Mar. 2025
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Respiratory problems: Regurgitated stomach acids that reach the back of your throat can be inhaled and cause irritation in your lungs and airways.—
Mark Gurarie,
Health,
7 Mar. 2025
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Over time, those items break down into tiny bits that people can inhale, ingest, or absorb through their skin.—
Claire Bugos,
Verywell Health,
7 Mar. 2025
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Fudd then drained her first 3-pointer after an 0-for-2 start, and Strong followed her up with four straight points off another pair of Marquette turnovers.—
Emily Adams,
Hartford Courant,
2 Mar. 2025
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That fall and winter, constant power outages and air-raid alerts left them drained and on edge.—
Michael Holtz,
The New Yorker,
28 Feb. 2025
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That would have been like the Celtics willingly trading, gulp, Paul Pierce to the Heat at one point.—
Ira Winderman,
Sun Sentinel,
8 Mar. 2025
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Vincent started gulping down studies and going to conferences, desperate to find a way to save his daughter.—
Robin Fields,
CNN,
17 Feb. 2025
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But by 2011, they were exhausted by seven solid years of touring and recording.—
Andy Greene,
Rolling Stone,
1 Mar. 2025
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Like state government, municipalities also have exhausted most of their emergency federal pandemic aid.—
Jessika Harkay,
Hartford Courant,
28 Feb. 2025
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On the day of the Hamas attack on Israel, Shem Tov crammed into a car full of people trying to flee, but the militants shot at them.—
ASSOCIATED PRESS,
TIME,
22 Feb. 2025
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The Ravel survey makes for a three-hour evening of intense focus and finger work; the Prokofiev concerto probably crams the same amount of notes into about 35 minutes.—
Joshua Barone,
New York Times,
21 Feb. 2025
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The foam rubber outsole has two layers: the softer upper part absorbs the shock, and the harder lower layer is for a better grip and durability.—
Joanne Shurvell,
Forbes,
12 Mar. 2025
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These forests of fast-growing brown algae provide food and habitat for hundreds of marine species and absorb greenhouse gases but are also highly sensitive to changes in their environment.—
Terry Castleman,
Los Angeles Times,
11 Mar. 2025
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“Devour.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/devour. Accessed 16 Mar. 2025.
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