Definitions for devours

devours de·vour

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

Devours is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 182 anagrams from letters in devours (deorsuv).

Definitions for devours

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 devours

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 devours

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Word Value for devours
Scrable

10

Words with friends

12

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