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Devour vs Chomp - What's the difference?

devour | chomp |

As verbs the difference between devour and chomp

is that devour is to eat quickly, greedily, hungrily, or ravenously while chomp is to bite or munch loudly or heavily.

As a noun chomp is

the act of chomping (see below).

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

    chomp

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of chomping (see below)
  • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To bite or munch loudly or heavily.
  • To chew something loudly or heavily.
  • The dog chomped the treat and swallowed it in one gulp.