All 4 Uses of
devour
in
Frankenstein
- I greedily devoured the remnants of the shepherd's breakfast, which consisted of bread, cheese, milk, and wine; the latter, however, I did not like.
Chpt 11 (definition 1) *devoured = ate rapidly and completely
- My father saw this change with pleasure, and he turned his thoughts towards the best method of eradicating the remains of my melancholy, which every now and then would return by fits, and with a devouring blackness overcast the approaching sunshine.
Chpt 18 (definition 2)devouring = destructive (consuming)
- Sometimes, indeed, I felt a wish for happiness and thought with melancholy delight of my beloved cousin or longed, with a devouring maladie du pays, to see once more the blue lake and rapid Rhone, that had been so dear to me in early childhood; but my general state of feeling was a torpor in which a prison was as welcome a residence as the divinest scene in nature; and these fits were seldom interrupted but by paroxysms of anguish and despair.
Chpt 21 (definition 2)devouring = consuming
- My revenge is of no moment to you; yet, while I allow it to be a vice, I confess that it is the devouring and only passion of my soul.
Chpt 23 (definition 2) *
Definitions:
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(1) (devour as in: devoured three sandwiches) eat rapidly and completely -- usually due to being very hungry
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(2) (devour as in: devoured by flames) to completely consume, destroy, or engulf (surround or cover)