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Devouring vs Swinish - What's the difference?

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Devouring is a related term of swinish.


As a verb devouring

is .

As a noun devouring

is the act by which something is devoured.

As an adjective swinish is

like a pig, resembling a swine; gluttonous, coarse, debased.

devouring

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is devoured.
  • * 1982 , Frederick Asals, Flannery O'Connor, the Imagination of Extremity (page 189)
    • But like all the other symbolic devourings in the novel, this one too brings its revelation.

    swinish

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Like a pig, resembling a swine; gluttonous, coarse, debased.
  • *1946 , (Bertrand Russell), History of Western Philosophy , I.27:
  • *:Epicurus, though his ethic seemed to others swinish and lacking in moral exultation, was very much in earnest.