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单词 devour
释义
devour
verb[T]
uk
/dɪˈvaʊər/us
/dɪˈvaʊ.ɚ/
toeatsomethingeagerlyand inlargeamountsso that nothing isleft:
狼吞虎咽，吞食
Theyoungcubshungrilydevoured thedeer.幼狮们贪婪地吞食着鹿肉。
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples
to eat food
  • eatWhat do you want to eat for lunch?
  • haveI'll just have one more piece of chocolate cake.
  • consumeHe consumes vast quantities of bread with every meal.
  • devourThe children devoured a whole packet of biscuits.
  • bolt (down)Don't bolt down your food - you'll make yourself ill!
  • gobble (up/down)The children gobbled their sweets.
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literary
todestroysomethingcompletely:
吞噬，毁灭
Theflamesquicklydevoured thebuilding.火焰很快吞噬了那座建筑物。
toreadbooksorliteraturequicklyandeagerly:
如饥似渴地阅读
Shelovestoread- she devours onebookafter another.她非常喜欢读书——如饥似渴地读了一本又一本。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Eating
  • al desko
  • binge
  • binge eating
  • bite
  • break breadidiom
  • cram
  • fall on/uponsomeone
  • feast
  • feast onsomething
  • feeder
  • feeding
  • mainline
  • partake
  • pick
  • pick atsomething
  • picnic
  • pig
  • shovel
  • trough
  • tuck
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Destroying and demolishing
Reading

Idiom

be devoured bysomething
(Definition ofdevourfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

devour| American Dictionary

devour
verb[T]
us
/dɪˈvɑʊər/
toeateagerlyand inlargeamounts, so that nothing isleft:
He devoured theentireplateofspaghetti.
fig.She devoured(=readeagerlyandquickly)thenovelsofJaneAusten.
(Definition ofdevourfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofdevour

devour
In narrating knowledge as consumption, primer writers argue that devouring texts builds healthy character.
From theCambridge English Corpus
After consuming all of the fish in his cart, she demands the ox and after devouring the ox, she sets her sights on eating the man.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Has the nightmare devoured the dream ?
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When they moult the cast skin is not traceable either at this stage or in subsequent stages, but it is not known whether it is devoured by the larvae themselves.
From theCambridge English Corpus
I take note of what he said in relation to us nourishing our children rather than devouring them.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
We were told that the bread and butter had to be devoured, and we could deal with the matter as we liked.
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One of the great problems is the rate at which it devours talent.
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The industry is very much a jungle, and the small and weak animals often get devoured.
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Instead, it makes me worried about the state of our democracy which is being devoured by bureaucracy and by misguided professional politicians.
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All this has been devoured by the media with great enthusiasm.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
Like so many revolutionaries of the intellectual rather than the bruising type, he has, sadly, been devoured by his own revolution.
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Therefore, almost immediately we find some of the increase being devoured.
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They are, no doubt, devouring the last of the free imports.
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Here he is sitting, having deliberately devoured with apparent gusto every word on this subject which he has ever spoken.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
There is a saying that a revolution devours its own children.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
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