Devour vs Devoir - What's the difference?
devour | devoir |
To eat quickly, greedily, hungrily, or ravenously.
To rapidly destroy, engulf, or lay waste.
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*Bible, (w) i. 20
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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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(archaic) Duty, business; something which one must do.
*, vol.1, p.149:
*:he imprint not so much in his schollers mind.
* 1787 , Winifred Marshall Gales, The History of Lady Emma Melcombe and her family , vol.3. p.155:
* 1885 , Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night , vol.1:
* 1983 , (Lawrence Durrell), Sebastian'', Faber & Faber 2004 (''Avignon Quintet ), p.1057:
As a verb devour
is to eat quickly, greedily, hungrily, or ravenously.As a noun devoir is
duty, business; something which one must do.devour
English
Verb
(en verb)- If ye refuseye shall be devoured with the sword.
Internal Combustion, passage=Blast after blast, fiery outbreak after fiery outbreak, like a flaming barrage from within,
Synonyms
* gobble, gorge, consume, devastate, overwhelm, wolfdevoir
English
Noun
(en noun)- I should have long ere this paid my devoirs to the inhabitants of Raymond Castle.
- Then quoth the portress to the mistress of the house, "O my lady, arise and go to thy place that I in turn may do my devoir ."
- That is the little bit of essential information which enables us to complete our devoir – without it we are just ordinary people, dispossessed, taken unawares: the original sin!