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Ravish vs Devour - What's the difference?

ravish | devour |

As verbs the difference between ravish and devour

is that ravish is to seize and carry away by violence; to snatch by force while devour is to eat quickly, greedily, hungrily, or ravenously.

ravish

English

Verb

(es)
  • (obsolete, or, archaic) To seize and carry away by violence; to snatch by force.
  • To transport with joy or delight; to delight to ecstasy.
  • * {{quote-book
  • , year=1873 , author=Jules Verne , title=Around the World in 80 Days , chapter=9 citation , passage=Passepartout was ravished to behold this celebrated place, and thought that, with its circular walls and dismantled fort, it looked like an immense coffee-cup and saucer.}}
  • To rape.
  • * {{quote-book
  • , year=1759 , author=Voltaire , title=Candide , chapter=8 citation , passage=A tall Bulgarian soldier, six feet high, perceiving that I had fainted away at this sight, attempted to ravish me; the operation brought me to my senses. I cried, I struggled, I bit, I scratched, I would have torn the tall Bulgarian’s eyes out, not knowing that what had happened at my father’s castle was a customary thing.}}
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.x:
  • For loe that Guest would beare her forcibly, / And meant to ravish her, that rather had to dy.

    Synonyms

    * abripe * (seize and carry away) kidnap

    Derived terms

    * ravishing * ravishment

    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.
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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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  • Synonyms

    * gobble, gorge, consume, devastate, overwhelm, wolf