All 5 Uses
devour
in
Life of Pi
(Edited)
- I suspect she suspected that I had a different take on the matter, but she never said anything when as a child I devoured the comic books of the Ramayana and the Mahabharata and an illustrated children's Bible and other stories of the gods.
Chpt 21-24 *devoured = read with eager interest
- A case is mentioned in the literature of a stoat and a rat living in a companion relationship, while other rats presented to the stoat were devoured by it in the typical way of stoats.
Chpt 29-32devoured = eaten
- Whatever the case, the mouse was bitten by a young viper but devoured—and immediately—by an adult.
Chpt 29-32devoured = eaten rapidly and completely
- After devouring half the liver, it started tugging on the whitish, balloon-like stomach bag.
Chpt 45-48devouring = eating
- He was moving through them, blazing a trail of murder and mayhem, devouring one meerkat after another...
Chpt 89-92 *devouring = eating rapidly and completely
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: devours crime novels) to read, listen, or watch with eager interest
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(3)
(devour as in: devoured by flames) to completely consume, destroy, or engulf (surround or cover)
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(4)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) If you're comfortable with the word consume in its broadest sense, you might think of every meaning of devour as meaning consume.