Nimble vs Devour - What's the difference?
nimble | devour |
Quick and light in movement or action.
Quick-witted and alert.
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 an adjective nimble
is quick and light in movement or action.As a verb devour is
to eat quickly, greedily, hungrily, or ravenously.nimble
English
Adjective
(er)- He was too nimble for the assailant and easily escaped his grasp.
- She has a nimble mind and can improvise in any situation.
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,
