English Synonym Finder

devoured

Definitions

To eat food or prey hungrily or quickly.

To read or consume something greedily and with great interest.

To destroy or consume completely, as by fire or a natural disaster.

Examples

The hungry wolf devoured its prey in a matter of seconds.

She was so engrossed in the mystery novel that she devoured the entire book in one afternoon.

Synonyms

consumed gobbled ingested devastated demolished wolfed bolted

Antonyms

nibbled picked nursed sipped tasted spared preserved