Verb

(en verb)

To receive pleasure or satisfaction from something

* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author=(Henry Petroski)

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To have the use or benefit of something.

* Bible, Numbers xxxvi. 8

that the children of Israel may enjoy every man the inheritance of his fathers

* 1988 , Harry G Frankfurt, The importance of what we care about: philosophical essays

This account fails to provide any basis for doubting that animals of subhuman species enjoy the freedom it defines.

To have sexual intercourse with.

(Milton)

Verb

(en verb)

To eat quickly, greedily, hungrily, or ravenously.

To rapidly destroy, engulf, or lay waste.

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*Bible, (w) i. 20

If ye refuseye shall be devoured with the sword.

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, chapter=1, title= Internal Combustion , passage=Blast after blast, fiery outbreak after fiery outbreak, like a flaming barrage from within,

To take in avidly with the intellect.

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*:Little disappointed, then, she turned attention to "Chat of the Social World," gossip which exercised potent fascination upon the girl's intelligence. She devoured with more avidity than she had her food those pretentiously phrased chronicles of the snobocracy […] distilling therefrom an acid envy that robbed her napoleon of all its savour.

To absorb or engross the mind fully, especially in a destructive manner.

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