All 4 Uses
devour
in
Not Without My Daughter
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- Quickly I devoured letters from Joe and John and Mum and Dad.
*devoured = read
- The clan devoured my cooking and heaped praises upon me.
*devoured = ate
- He spent hours devouring every Iranian publication he could obtain.
devouring = reading with eager interest
- I looked for something to read, examining Moody's bookcase for something in English that I had not already devoured from cover to cover.†
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.