devouring
Eating with abandon
Devouring describes consuming eagerly and completely.
The literal sense involves eating ravenously: The wolves set about devouring the carcass.
Figuratively, it extends to any intense consumption—devouring books, attention, or resources.
A devouring passion or devouring ambition consumes someone entirely, leaving room for little else.
Extremely hungry, insatiable
- gluttonousExcessively fond of eating
- insatiableImpossible to satisfy
- gobblingEating fast and messily
- wolfingEating greedily and fast
gorging · feasting · scarfing · engulfing · swallowing · chomping · gulping · inhaling
Voracious reader
- page-turnerCompulsively readable book
- engrossedWholly absorbed in something
- absorbedTook in fully
- immersedPlunged entirely into
captivated · bibliophile · unputdownable · gripping · riveted · speed-reading · cover to cover · consuming
Using up entirely
- engulfingSurrounding and consuming completely
- ravagingViolently destroying everything
- annihilatingDestroying utterly and completely
- obliteratingDestroying beyond recognition
razing · decimating · flames · inferno · wildfire · spreading · overwhelming · all-consuming
ravenous
Extremely hungry, insatiable
- gluttonousExcessively fond of eating
- insatiableImpossible to satisfy
- gobblingEating fast and messily
wolfing · gorging · feasting · scarfing · engulfing · swallowing · chomping · gulping · inhaling · polishing off
bookworm
Voracious reader
- page-turnerCompulsively readable book
- engrossedWholly absorbed in something
- absorbedTook in fully
immersed · captivated · bibliophile · unputdownable · gripping · riveted · speed-reading · cover to cover · consuming · spellbound
consuming
Using up entirely
- engulfingSurrounding and consuming completely
- ravagingViolently destroying everything
- annihilatingDestroying utterly and completely
obliterating · razing · decimating · flames · inferno · wildfire · spreading · overwhelming · all-consuming · unstoppable
- overeatingovereating, binge eating, gorging, gluttony, overindulgence
- eatingchewing, biting, swallowing, nibbling, munching
- consumptioneating, drinking, consuming, ingestion, ingesting
- gluttonyglutton, gluttonous, gorge, gorger, gorging
- Hunger-Relatedeating, appetite, food craving, stomach growling, hunger pains
- depletingusing up, depleting, exhausting, draining, consuming
devouringnibbling
Eating in small bites
picking at · pecking at · sipping · tasting · sampling
devouringabstaining
Voluntarily doing without
fasting · undesiring · satiated · repulsed · disgusted
devouringabstaining
Voluntarily doing without
fasting · refraining · forgoing · refusing · rejecting
devour, carnivore, voracious, herbivore, carnivorous, devoured, omnivorous, devours, omnivore