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devouringverbpresent participle of devour to destroy all trace ofa series of devastating storms devoured the beach on the south side of the island consuming, eating (up) guttingdepleting, draining, exhausting, expending, spending, using upannihilating, decimating, demolishing, desolating, devastating, doing in, pulverizing, razing, ruining, shattering, smashing, tearing down, wasting, wreckingannihilating, blotting out, eradicating, exterminating, extinguishing, extirpating, obliterating, removing, rubbing out, stamping (out), wiping out conserving, preserving, protecting, savingbuilding, constructing, erecting, putting up, raising to make complete use ofa catastrophic medical event that devoured their savings absorbing, burning, consuming, depleting, draining, drawing down, exhausting, expending, playing out, spending, using up abating, decreasing, de-escalating, diminishing, downsizing, dwindling, lessening, lowering, reducingeating, usingbankrupting, cleaning (out), impoverishingcrippling, debilitating, disabling, enfeebling, sapping, undermining, weakeningdrying up, emptyingblowing, dissipating, frittering (away), guzzling, lavishing, misspending, running through, squandering, throwing away, wasting running out of renewing, replacing augmenting, enlarging, increasingbolstering, enforcing, fortifying, reinforcing(also reenforcing), strengtheningrebuilding, repairing, restoring, revivingconserving, preserving, saving to swallow or eat greedilythe starving villagers simply devoured the relief food bolting, cramming, glutting(archaic), gobbling, gorging, gormandizing, gulping, ingurgitating, inhaling, ravening, scarfing, scoffing, slopping, wolfing overeating, pigging out, swilling nibbling, pecking, picking |