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Devoured vs Guzzled - What's the difference?

devoured | guzzled |

As verbs the difference between devoured and guzzled

is that devoured is (devour) while guzzled is (guzzle).

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

    guzzled

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (guzzle)

    • guzzle

    English

    Verb

    (guzzl)
  • To drink (or, sometimes, eat) quickly, voraciously, or to excess; to gulp down; to swallow greedily, continually, or with gust.
    • They spent most of their college days guzzling beer.
  • * 1720 , , “Friday; or, the Dirge” in Poems on Several Occasions , Google Books
    • No more her care shall fill the hollow tray, / To fat the guzzling hogs with floods of whey.
  • * 1971 ,
    • What do you get when you guzzle down sweets, / Eating as much as an elephant eats?
  • (dated) To consume alcoholic beverages, especially frequently or habitually.
  • * 1649 , , Google Books
    • A comparison more properly bestowed on those that came to guzzle in his wine cellar.
  • * 1684 , , Essay on Translated Verse , Google Books
    • Well-seasoned bowls the gossip's spirits raise, Who, while she guzzles , chats the doctor's praise.
  • * 1859 , , The Virginians , Google Books
    • Every theatre had it's footman's gallery: […] they guzzled , devoured, debauched, cheated, played cards, bullied visitors for vails: […]
  • (by extension) To consume anything quickly, greedily, or to excess, as if with insatiable thirst.
    • This car just guzzles petrol.
  • * 2004 , Mike Rigby, quoted in The Freefoam Roofline Report , [http://michaelrigbyassociates.com/pages/research/quarterly/readreport35166.htm]
    • China continues full steam ahead and the Americans continue to guzzle fuel, while supply becomes restricted.

    Synonyms

    * swig, swill

    Derived terms

    * guzzler

    See also

    * guttle * guddle

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (dated, uncountable) Drink; intoxicating liquor.
    • Where squander'd away the tiresome minutes of your evening leisure over seal'd Winchesters of threepenny guzzle ! —
  • (dated) A drinking bout; a debauch.
  • (dated) An insatiable thing or person.
  • (obsolete, British, provincial) A drain or ditch; a gutter; sometimes, a small stream. Also called guzzen .
  • * 1598 , , The Scourge of Villanie Google Books
    • Means't thou that senseless, sensual epicure, / That sink of filth, that guzzle most impure?
  • * 1623 , W. Whately, Bride Bush ,
    • This is all one thing as if hee should goe about to jussle her into some filthy stinking guzzle or ditch.