Reactive vs Devour - What's the difference?
reactive | devour |
that reacts or responds to a stimulus
(chemistry) that readily takes part in reactions
(electronics) Characterized by induction or capacitance rather than resistance.
Reacting to the past rather than anticipating the future, not predictive.
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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As verbs the difference between reactive and devour
is that reactive is while devour is to eat quickly, greedily, hungrily, or ravenously.reactive
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- francium is the most reactive of the alkali metals.
Derived terms
* reactive armour * reactive arthritis * reactive centre * reactive depression * reactive distillation * reactive dye * reactive homeostasis * reactive hyperemia * reactive hypoglycemia * reactive intermediate * reactive ion etching * reactive lymphocyte * reactive schizophrenia * reactive search * reactive loadAnagrams
* ----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,