devouring
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6.7
- adjective
- /dɪˈvaʊərɪŋ/
- His devouring curiosity led him to explore every corner of the world.
Examples
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The child's devouring appetite for adventure often got him into trouble.
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They go to life devouring and they are really very cold individuals.
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And it's clear that before you know it, you know, we're going to be involved in a world devouring regress here.
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I kind of understood the devouring famish T Rex part, but mostly I understood it.
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Who's the predator? The devouring mother.
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But what surrounds the correspondent is not delicate, it is a devouring irony.
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There are only monstrous devouring fathers and petrified fatherless sons.
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For this second Marx, capitalism is too unstable, too devouring, too "immanent" a thing to find its "outside" in a disalienated humanity; the problem then becomes how to rethink the critical Marxist promise of what is "to come" without recourse to a religion of some "essential community" or the "great narratives" through which this community would take consciousness of itself.
Academic text (1998) -
She had a devouring passion for knowledge, spending every free moment in the library.
Synonyms
257
1.8
Wanting something very much, often success or praise
228
1.4
Wanting more food, money, or things than needed
63
3.9
Very interested in something and excited to do it often
37
7.5
Always wanting more and never feeling satisfied
19
6.0
Feeling very hungry and eager to eat
18
7.5
Having a very large hunger for food or learning
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5.4
So strong that it takes all your attention and energy
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9.9
Very hungry or greedy and acting in a violent way to take what others have
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8.9
Very hungry and likely to eat large amounts of food
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9.9
Very hungry and wanting a lot of food or money
Antonyms
How Eager
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Devouring comes from Latin parts de- meaning 'completely' and vorare meaning 'to eat', the same root you see in devour and carnivore. So a devouring desire is like a hunger that 'eats' you up, very strong and hard to ignore.