0 past simple and past participle of devour
1 to eat something eagerly and in large amounts so that nothing is left:
It seems that belief after belief, the critique has devoured everything it could, including science and rationality.
Only five of them could be examined, the other 86 being devoured by their parents.
However, floral rewards appeared to be tissues of the fleshy staminate petals and pollen that were readily devoured by the beetles.
From it were taken basins of what appeared to be boiled rice, which was eagerly fought for and devoured.
Consequently, there is no clear-cut distinction between the subsystems of the grammar; the lexicon seems to have devoured the tripartite architecture.
Electronic music in particular and its corrosive tendencies, though spread and supported by remarkable composers, has ended up being devoured by academic immune systems.
He had devoured his master, didn't always have her before his eyes as a warning and a constraint.
I devoured those wonderful books, savoring the clinical descriptions.
