to devour
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4.1
- verb
- /dɪˈvaʊər/
:
devorar
- Jenny used to devour those books.
- devours books
All I've done apparently in the last two weeks is devour TV shows.
- All I've done apparently in the last two weeks is devour TV shows.
- Yeah, I got from her reading my grandmother, she would, she devoured books, like devoured books.
- I I enjoyed that and as a child I devoured the biographies of famous people because I think I was looking for clues about how do you live a larger life.
- So I used to, I devoured those.
- So you even more so you hunkered down and devoured everything from watching films, screenplays?
- It's been a while since I've read like an adult kind of thriller novel that you just like Devour, you know?
Examples
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Of course, Paul Stammet's books were the first ones I found, and I would devour everything I could read.
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He devoured the new novel, reading it in just a few hours.
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All I've done apparently in the last two weeks is devour TV shows.
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I go through spells of devouring entire books in a day for weeks on end.
Blog text (1) -
Since then I've tried to devour every performance and recording of hers I could.
Blog text (32) -
As a child I spent hours devouring those marvelous novels.
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Guys, I have just found the show and I am devouring podcasts.
Blog text (32) -
So I grabbed it with low expectations, devoured it in three days, and I have bought dozens of copies to give to friends.
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Right now she is devouring Neil Gaiman's M is for Magic with great excitement.
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I thought of it as reading deeply—devouring, actually—material that beckoned to me.
Academic text (2009)
Synonyms
193
5.3
To take all of a person's time and attention
Antonyms
How Enthusiastic
Surface Forms
Etymology
Devour comes from the Latin devorare, built from de- 'completely' and vorare 'to swallow'. A helpful image is a reader or viewer who 'swallows' books or shows with great hunger, which is why we say they 'devour' a novel or series.