All 4 Uses of
devour
in
Ender's Game
- Only now their teeth could tear; Ender, weaponless, was quickly devoured.†
Chpt 7
- Are all the others animals, waiting only to devour?†
Chpt 7 *
- Peter has always been a husbandman of pain, planting it, nurturing it, devouring it greedily when it was ripe; better he should take it in these small, sharp doses than with dull cruelty to children in the school.†
Chpt 9
- Peter had devoured it too often to bear it that it might have been Valentine all along.†
Chpt 9
Definition:
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(devour as in: devoured three sandwiches) eat rapidly and completely -- usually due to being very hungry