Devours

Word DEVOURS
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Definitions and meanings of "Devours"

What do we mean by devours?

To eat quickly, greedily, hungrily, or ravenously.

To rapidly destroy, engulf, or lay waste.

To take in avidly with the intellect or with one's gaze.

To absorb or engross the mind fully, especially in a destructive manner.

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The word "devours" in example sentences

Whatever the new-age justification, the n-word's very use is inappropriate and counterproductive to human relations; the term devours any level of respect-given or received, cultural pride and dignity, and dehumanizes whomever the term is used toward. ❋ Unknown (2008)

That war makes woeful desolations, which those persons, places, and things that were esteemed most sacred cannot escape; for the sword devours one as well as another. ❋ Unknown (1721)

The sword devours one as well as another, Josiah as well as Ahab. ❋ Unknown (1721)

Nay, because the sword devours one as well as another, every one that is joined to them shall fall by the sword; those of other nations that come in to their assistance shall be cut off with them. ❋ Unknown (1721)

The sword devours from one end of the land to the other; all places lie exposed, and the numerous army of the invaders disperse themselves into every corner of that fruitful country, so that no flesh shall have peace, none shall be exempt from the calamity nor be able to enjoy any tranquillity. ❋ Unknown (1721)

Even the tender and delicate shall share in the common calamity; the sword devours one as well as another. ❋ Unknown (1721)

Though the sword devours one as well as another, and all things seem to come alike to all, yet sooner or later it shall be made to appear that the Lord knows them that are his and them that are not, and how to take out the precious from the vile. ❋ Unknown (1721)

Thou complainest that the sword devours, but who first unsheathed it? ❋ Unknown (1721)

It is true the sword devours one as well as another, but these were waited for of the sword, marked for vengeance. ❋ Unknown (1721)

This point being gained, he can make light of the loss, and turn it off easily with an excuse: The sword devours one as well as another; it was a chance of war, nothing more common. ❋ Unknown (1721)

011: 025 Then David said to the messenger, Thus shall you tell Joab, Don't let this thing displease you, for the sword devours one as well as another; make your battle more strong against the city, and overthrow it: and encourage you him. ❋ Anonymous (N/A)

An image occurs to him, the image of a runner, who, as we say, 'devours' the ground. ❋ Arthur Symons (1905)

Also "devours" (namely, by exactions, Mt 23: 24; Ps 53: 4), ❋ Unknown (1871)

"devours" them, and, in this sense, Austen's misspelling of "Beautifull" in the title of this short piece is apt insofar as it emphasizes the heroine's desire, here as throughout the Juvenilia, to "fill" herself, as she acts from a sense of deprivation or a sense of vibrant yearnings. ❋ Unknown (2006)

She runs toward her husband, rips off his head, and completely devours him. ❋ PhD Bradford Keeney (2010)

Beneath it one of the beasts, in a brown trench coat, devours an old woman. ❋ Max Brallier (2011)

When I asked him why, when he normally devours a zillions books on scientific subjects, he doesn't enjoy science _class_? ❋ Lyda222 (2010)

Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor. ❋ Unknown (2010)

“Experience declares that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to … the general prey of the rich on the poor.” ❋ Unknown (2010)

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