devour
Consume with abandon
To devour is to eat hungrily or consume rapidly: The starving dog devoured its food.
The word suggests eagerness and thoroughness—nothing left behind.
By extension, devour applies to anything consumed with intense appetite: She devoured three novels over the weekend.
Fire devours what it burns.
Guilt or jealousy can devour a person from within.
Take in fully
- engulfCompletely surround and cover
- ravageCause severe destruction
- obliterateDestroy all traces of
- annihilateDestroy completely, leaving nothing
swallow up · overwhelm · sweep away · lay waste · demolish · raze · destroy · decimate
Impossible to satisfy
- famishedIntensely, painfully hungry
- starvingSuffering extreme hunger
- wolfishResembling a wild canine
- gluttonousExcessively fond of eating
hungry · greedy · rapacious · ravening · piggish · unquenchable · ferocious · predatory
Take in fully
- soak upTake in thoroughly
- lap upConsume eagerly with tongue
- drink inAbsorb appreciatively through senses
- savorEnjoy with full attention
relish · binge · marathon · hunger for · thirst for · crave · covet
Wholly absorbed in something
- absorbedTook in fully
- immersedPlunged entirely into
- captivatedWholly absorbed by something
- grippedHeld with pressure
enthralled · spellbound · riveted · hooked · consumed · page-turner · unputdownable · marathon
consume
Take in fully
gulp · swallow · feast · inhale · scarf · bolt · stuff · cram · polish off · pig out
consume
Take in fully
- engulfCompletely surround and cover
- ravageCause severe destruction
- obliterateDestroy all traces of
annihilate · swallow up · overwhelm · sweep away · lay waste · demolish · raze · destroy · decimate · gut
insatiable
Impossible to satisfy
gluttonous · hungry · greedy · rapacious · ravening · piggish · unquenchable · ferocious · predatory · savage
absorb
Take in fully
- soak upTake in thoroughly
- lap upConsume eagerly with tongue
- drink inAbsorb appreciatively through senses
savor · relish · binge · marathon · hunger for · thirst for · crave · covet
engrossed
Wholly absorbed in something
- absorbedTook in fully
- immersedPlunged entirely into
- captivatedWholly absorbed by something
gripped · enthralled · spellbound · riveted · hooked · consumed · page-turner · unputdownable · marathon · speed-read
- gluttonyglutton, gluttonous, gorge, gorger, gorging
- hungerhunger, hungry, starving, starvation, famished
- indulgenceindulgence, indulge, indulgent, self-indulgent, overindulgence
- eating and drinkingeat, drink, chew, bite, swallow
- readingfluency, read, comprehension, readers, books
- eating phrasesdig in, chow down, bon appetit, eat up, gobble up