Ravenous vs Devour - What's the difference?
ravenous | devour |
Very hungry.
* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers)
, chapter=5, title= (rfc-sense) Eager for prey or gratification.
* 1843 , (Thomas Carlyle), '', book 3, ch. IX, ''Working Aristocracy
To eat quickly, greedily, hungrily, or ravenously.
To rapidly destroy, engulf, or lay waste.
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*Bible, (w) i. 20
*{{quote-book, year=2006, author=(w)
, chapter=1, title= To take in avidly with the intellect.
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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 ravenous
is very hungry.As a verb devour is
to eat quickly, greedily, hungrily, or ravenously.ravenous
English
Adjective
(en adjective)A Cuckoo in the Nest, passage=The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite. There is something humiliating about it.}}
- Supply-and-demand? One begins to be weary of such work. Leave all to egoism, to ravenous greed of money, of pleasure, of applause: — it is the Gospel of Despair!
Synonyms
* starving (qualifier) * See alsoSee also
* voraciousdevour
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,
