Dictionary
de•vour
Pronunciation: (di-vour'), [key]—
v.t.
1. to swallow or eat up hungrily, voraciously, or ravenously.
2. to consume destructively, recklessly, or wantonly:
Fire devoured the old museum.
3. to engulf or swallow up.
4. to take in greedily with the senses or intellect:
to devour the works of Freud.
5. to absorb or engross wholly:
a mind devoured by fears. Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.