Devour vs Guttle - What's the difference?
devour | guttle | see also |
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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To put into the gut; to eat voraciously; to swallow greedily; to gorge, gormandize.
* Dryden Translations From Persius, The Sixth Satire of Pursius :
* 1890s , Poverty Knock :
To swallow.
* 1692 (1616-1704) Fables Of Aesop And Other Eminent Mythologists :
Devour is a see also of guttle.
As verbs the difference between devour and guttle
is that devour is to eat quickly, greedily, hungrily, or ravenously while guttle is to put into the gut; to eat voraciously; to swallow greedily; to gorge, gormandize.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, wolfguttle
English
Verb
(guttl)- His jolly brother, opposite in sense, / Laughs at his thrift; and lavish of expence / Quaffs, crams, and guttles, in his own defence.
- I know I can guttle, when I hear my shuttle, go poverty, poverty knock.
- The fool spit in his porridge, to try if they'd hiss : they did not hiss, and so he guttled them up, and scalded his chops