Both Uses
devour
in
A Wrinkle in Time
(Edited)
- She was frozen, and Charles Wallace was being devoured by IT, and her omnipotent father was doing nothing.
p. 190.1devoured = swallowed (completely surrounded and covered)
- Immediately Meg was swept into darkness, into nothingness, and then into the icy devouring cold of the Black Thing.
p. 223.4 *devouring = swallowing (completely surrounding and covering)
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.