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Eating vs Devouring - What's the difference?

eating | devouring |

As verbs the difference between eating and devouring

is that eating is while devouring is .

As nouns the difference between eating and devouring

is that eating is the act of ingesting food while devouring is the act by which something is devoured.

As an adjective eating

is suitable to be eaten without being cooked.

eating

English

Verb

(head)

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • Suitable to be eaten without being cooked.
    • Wait! That's not an eating apple.

    Noun

    (wikipedia eating)
  • The act of ingesting food.
  • Food; cooking, cuisine.
    • I remember when we visited Aunt Martha's house, we had some really good eating !
  • The act of corroding or consuming some substance.

    • Synonyms

    * (ingesting food) dining, consuming, consumption

    Anagrams

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    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.