Relish vs Devour - What's the difference?
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A pleasing taste; flavor that gratifies the palate; hence, enjoyable quality; power of pleasing.
* 1748 . David Hume. Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. London: Oxford University Press, 1973. § 12.
* Milton
* Addison
Savor; quality; characteristic tinge.
* Alexander Pope
A taste for; liking; appetite; fondness.
* Macaulay
* Cowper
That which is used to impart a flavor; specifically, something taken with food to render it more palatable or to stimulate the appetite; a condiment.
A cooked or pickled sauce, usually made with vegetables or fruits, generally used as a condiment.
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In a wooden frame, the projection or shoulder at the side of, or around, a tenon, on a tenoned piece.
(obsolete) To taste; to have a specified taste or flavour.
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* Shakespeare
* Woodward
To give a relish to; to cause to taste agreeable, to make appetizing.
* Dryden
To taste or eat with pleasure, to like the flavor of; to take great pleasure in.
* Shakespeare
* Atterbury
To eat quickly, greedily, hungrily, or ravenously.
To rapidly destroy, engulf, or lay waste.
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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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Relish is a related term of devour.
As verbs the difference between relish and devour
is that relish is (obsolete|intransitive) to taste; to have a specified taste or flavour while devour is to eat quickly, greedily, hungrily, or ravenously.As a noun relish
is a pleasing taste; flavor that gratifies the palate; hence, enjoyable quality; power of pleasing.relish
English
(wikipedia relish)Noun
(es)- A Laplander or Negro has no notion of the relish of wine.
- Much pleasure we have lost while we abstained / From this delightful fruit, nor known till now / True relish , tasting.
- When liberty is gone, / Life grows insipid, and has lost its relish .
- It preserves some relish of old writing.
- a relish for whatever was excellent in arts
- I have a relish for moderate praise, because it bids fair to be judicious.
Hyponyms
* See alsoVerb
(es)- honourable enterprises are accompanied with dangers and damages, as experience evinceth; they will make the rest of thy life relish the better.
- Had I been the finder-out of this secret, it would not have relished among my other discredits.
- A theory, which, how much soever it may relish of wit and invention, hath no foundation in nature.
- a sav'ry bit that served to relish wine
- He relishes their time together.
- I don't relish the idea of going out tonight.
- Now I begin to relish thy advice.
- He knows how to prize his advantages, and to relish the honours which he enjoys.
Synonyms
* appreciate * delight in * enjoy * like * reveldevour
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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,