Both Uses of
devour
in
Great Expectations
- The worst of it was that that bullying old Pumblechook, preyed upon by a devouring curiosity to be informed of all I had seen and heard, came gaping over in his chaise-cart at tea-time, to have the details divulged to him.†
Chpt 9
- She hung upon Estella's beauty, hung upon her words, hung upon her gestures, and sat mumbling her own trembling fingers while she looked at her, as though she were devouring the beautiful creature she had reared.†
Chpt 38 *
Definition:
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(devour as in: devoured three sandwiches) eat rapidly and completely -- usually due to being very hungry