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Devoured vs Devourer - What's the difference?

devoured | devourer |

As a verb devoured

is past tense of devour.

As a noun devourer is

one who devours.

devoured

English

Verb

(head)
  • (devour)

    • 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

    devourer

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who devours.
  • * 1774 , Edward Long, The History of Jamaica (page 354)
    • It is doubtful, whether we ought to ascribe any superior qualities to the more ancient Africans; for we find them represented

    Anagrams

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