Definitions for devour

devour de·vour

Spelling: [dih-vou-uh r, -vou-er]
IPA: /dɪˈvaʊ ər, -ˈvaʊ ər/

Devour is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 87 anagrams from letters in devour (deoruv).

Definitions for devour

verb (used with object)

  1. to swallow or eat up hungrily, voraciously, or ravenously.
  2. to consume destructively, recklessly, or wantonly:
  3. to engulf or swallow up.
  4. to take in greedily with the senses or intellect:
  5. to absorb or engross wholly:

Origin of devour

1275-1325; Middle English devouren Anglo-French, Old French devourer Latin dēvorāre to swallow down, equivalent to dē- de- + vorāre to eat up

Examples for devour

Eager, hungry breath it was, like that of hounds seeking to devour him.

In this region there are whole nations of cannibals, who devour their captives.

I am more determined than ever to get into Gaza just so I can sit on the beach and devour this Bedouin feast with my hands.

Beneath his wheedling air there was the determination to devour everything.

The maddened flames leaped and crackled as if to devour him.

Or, some of us (many of us), devour 14 in a row with breaks just for bathroom and answering the door for the delivery man.

The critters have the propensity to devour their babies if alarmed and so require a calm environment for breeding.

The wolf, that runs away from a lion, will devour a lamb the next moment.

Before he knew it, he had more animals on his hands than his snakes could devour.

You get the sense that they want to eat each other, to devour each other.

Word Value for devour
Scrable

10

Words with friends

12

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