Devour vs Gorged - What's the difference?
devour | gorged |
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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, chapter=1, title= 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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With a stomach stuffed full of food.
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*:Gorged nearly to the uttermost when he entered the restaurant, the smell of food had almost caused him to lose his honor as a gentleman, but he rallied like a true knight.
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*:“I don't mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera, the gorged dowagers,, the jewelled animals whose moral code is the code of the barnyard—!"
(lb) With the neck collared or encircled by an object.
(gorge)
As verbs the difference between devour and gorged
is that devour is to eat quickly, greedily, hungrily, or ravenously while gorged is (gorge).As an adjective gorged is
with a stomach stuffed full of food.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,
