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Detoured vs Devoured - What's the difference?

detoured | devoured |

As verbs the difference between detoured and devoured

is that detoured is (detour) while devoured is (devour).

detoured

English

Verb

(head)
  • (detour)

    • detour

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A diversion or deviation from one's original route.
  • * 1918 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), Chapter IX
    • On the third day I made a detour westward to avoid the country of the Band-lu, as I did not care to be detained by a meeting with To-jo.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make a detour.
  • To direct or send on a detour.

    • Anagrams

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    devoured

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (devour)

    • devour

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To eat quickly, greedily, hungrily, or ravenously.
  • To rapidly destroy, engulf, or lay waste.
  • :
  • *Bible, (w) i. 20
    • If ye refuseye shall be devoured with the sword.
  • *{{quote-book, year=2006, author=(w)
    • , 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.
  • :
  • *
  • *: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.
  • :

    • Synonyms

    * gobble, gorge, consume, devastate, overwhelm, wolf