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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

DEVOURING, ppr. Eating greedily; consuming; wasting; destroying; annihilating.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: (often followed by `for') ardently or excessively desirous; "avid for adventure"; "an avid ambition to succeed"; "fierce devouring affection"; "the esurient eyes of an avid curiosity"; "greedy for fame" [syn: avid, devouring, esurient, greedy]

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Devour De*vour", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Devoured; p. pr. & vb. n. Devouring.] [F. d['e]vorer, fr. L. devorare; de + vorare to eat greedily, swallow up. See Voracious.] 1. To eat up with greediness; to consume ravenously; to feast upon like a wild beast or a glutton; to prey upon. Some evil beast hath devoured him. --Gen. xxxvii. 20. 2. To seize upon and destroy or appropriate greedily, selfishly, or wantonly; to consume; to swallow up; to use up; to waste; to annihilate. Famine and pestilence shall devour him. --Ezek. vii. 15. I waste my life and do my days devour. --Spenser. 3. To enjoy with avidity; to appropriate or take in eagerly by the senses. Longing they look, and gaping at the sight, Devour her o'er with vast delight. --Dryden. Syn: To consume; waste; destroy; annihilate.

Moby Thesaurus

a hog for, acquisitive, all-devouring, appetite, avaricious, avid, bottomless, cannibalism, carnivorism, carnivority, carnivorousness, chewing, consumption, coveting, covetous, cropping, deglutition, devourment, dieting, dining, eating, epulation, esurient, feasting, feeding, gluttonous, gluttony, gobbling, grabby, grasping, grazing, greedy, herbivorism, herbivority, herbivorousness, hoggish, hunger, ingestion, insatiable, insatiate, licking, limitless, manducation, mastication, mercenary, messing, miserly, money-hungry, money-mad, munching, nibbling, nutrition, omnivorism, omnivorous, omnivorousness, omophagy, overgreedy, pantophagy, pasture, pasturing, pecking, piggish, quenchless, rapacious, ravening, ravenous, regalement, relishing, rumination, savoring, slakeless, sordid, swinish, tasting, unappeasable, unappeased, unquenchable, unsated, unsatisfied, unslakeable, unslaked, vegetarianism, venal, voracious, wolfing