devourer

One who gorges

A devourer is one who devours—consuming eagerly, completely, or destructively.

The word applies literally to voracious eaters: The locusts were devourers of crops.

More often it appears figuratively for anything that consumes utterly: a devourer of books, Time is the great devourer.

The term carries dramatic or literary weight, suggesting appetite beyond ordinary consumption.

predator

hunter

Pursuer of prey

  • stalkerObsessive, unwelcome follower
  • preyAnimal being hunted
  • fangsSharp piercing teeth

claws · jaws · maw · beast · raptor · ambush · pounce · kill · savage · feeding

destroyer

annihilator

One who destroys completely

ruination · devastation · decay · entropy · erosion · corrosion · blight · plague · locusts · wildfire

voracious

ravenous

Extremely hungry, insatiable

starving · wolfish · unquenchable · greedy · rapacious · all-consuming · relentless · unceasing · craving · hungering

glutton

overeater

One who gorges

feaster · gourmand · wolfing · stuffing · insatiable · gluttonous · piggish · swiller · cormorant · epicure

Categories
Opposites
consumption intensity

devourernibbler

Small-bite eater or metal cutter

picker · grazer · sipper · picky eater · taster

consumption vs. provision

devourerprovider

One who furnishes things

nourisher · feeder · creator · nurturer · giver

engagement vs. abstention

devourerabstainer

One who refrains

faster · ascetic · starver · renouncer · hunger striker

Family

devour, devouring, devoured, devours, devourers

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Used worldwide · Timeless · Negative · Everyday, not technical · Rated PG