All 19 Uses
devour
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The Odyssey
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- But he could not save them from disaster, hard as he strove—
the recklessness of their own ways destroyed them all,
the blind fools, they devoured the cattle of the Sun
and the Sungod wiped from sight the day of their return.p. 77.6devoured = ate rapidly and completely - ... Better for me
if you were devouring all my treasure, all my cattle—
...we'd make amends in no time.
...
But now, look, you load my heart with grief—
there's nothing I can do!p. 95.8devouring = consuming or destroying completely - So, we will devour your worldly goods and wealth
as long as she holds out, holds to that course
the gods have charted deep inside her heart.
Great renown she wins for herself, no doubt,
great loss for you in treasure.p. 97.3 *devour = consuming (using up) completely - See to your feasting elsewhere,
devour your own possessions, house to house by turns.
But if you decide the fare is better, richer here,
destroying one man's goods and going scot-free,
all right then, carve away!
But I'll cry out to the everlasting gods in hopes
that Zeus will pay you back with a vengeance—all of youp. 97.9devour = consume or destroy completely - The prince's wealth will be devoured as always,
mercilessly—no reparations, ever …. not
while the queen drags out our hopes to wed her,
waiting, day after day, all of us striving hard
to win one matchless beauty.p. 99.8devoured = consumed or destroyed completely - Don't rove from home too long,
too far, leaving your own holdings unprotected—
crowds in your palace so brazen
they'll carve up all your wealth, devour it all,p. 117.6devour = consume or destroy completely - My house is being devoured, my rich farms destroyed,
my palace crammed with enemies, slaughtering on and on
my droves of sheep and shambling longhorn cattle.p. 134.6devoured = consumed or destroyed completely - he knocked them dead like pups—
their brains gushed out all over, soaked the floor—
and ripping them limb from limb to fix his meal
he bolted them down like a mountain-lion, left no scrap,
devoured entrails, flesh and bones, marrow and all!p. 220.8devoured = ate rapidly and completely - and you will find a world of pain at home,
crude, arrogant men devouring all your goods,
courting your noble wife, offering gifts to win her.p. 253.4devouring = eating rapidly and completely - You know it all.
Or is he too—like father, like son—condemned
to hardship, roving over the barren salt sea
while strangers devour our livelihood right here?p. 300.2devour = consume or destroy completely - It's wrong, Telemachus, wrong to rove so far,
so long from home, leaving your own holdings
unprotected—crowds in your palace so brazen
they'll carve up all your wealth, devour it all,p. 319.9 - …a flighty, weak-willed boy these days.
You'll waste time, roaming around our holdings,
probing the fieldhands man by man, while the suitors
sit at ease in our house, devouring all our goods—
those brazen rascals never spare a scrap!p. 348.5devouring = eating rapidly and completely - The mobs were set to destroy him, rip his life out,
devour his vast wealth to their heart's content,p. 352.1devour = consume or destroy completely - Your way is a far cry from the time-honored way
of suitors locked in rivalry, striving to win
some noble woman, a wealthy man's daughter.
They bring in their own calves and lambs
to feast the friends of the bride-to-be, yes,
and shower her with gleaming gifts as well.
They don't devour the woman's goods scot-free.p. 384.9 - She found Odysseus in the thick of slaughtered corpses,
splattered with bloody filth like a lion that's devoured
some ox of the field and lopes home, covered with blood,p. 451.9 *devoured = ate rapidly and completely - See to your feasting elsewhere,
devour your own possessions, house to house by turns.†p. 89.9 - But once offshore as far as a man's shout can carry,
I called back to the Cyclops, stinging taunts:
'So, Cyclops, no weak coward it was whose crew
you bent to devour there in your vaulted cave—
you with your brute force!†p. 226.5 - No, at their royal ease they devour all his goods,
those brazen rascals never spare a scrap!†p. 304.5 - You who disgrace, devour a great man's house and home!†
p. 435.1
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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(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.