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devour
verb as in swallow, consume
Strong matches
Example Sentences
The cellphone is a tool that will devour its user, if we don’t fight back.
That critique assumes great masses of voters devour campaign memoirs with the same voracious appetite as those who surrender their Sundays to the Beltway chat shows, or mainline political news like a continuous IV drip.
Roberts isn’t just chewing the scenery; she’s devouring the celluloid and licking her chops, hungry for more.
But as a music nerd, who'd devoured back issues of NME magazine as a teenager, she knew what came next: The second album slump.
His father, Charles Sr., took the family on weekly outings to the Santa Monica Public Library, where young “Charlie” devoured Greek mythology.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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