de·vour /dɪˈvaʊ(ə)r, di-/
 (vt.)吞食,揮霍,吞沒
 De·vour v. t. [imp. & p. p. Devoured p. pr. & vb. n. Devouring.]
 1. To eat up with greediness; to consume ravenously; to feast upon like a wild beast or a glutton; to prey upon.
    Some evil beast hath devoured him.   --Gen. xxxvii. 20.
 2. To seize upon and destroy or appropriate greedily, selfishly, or wantonly; to consume; to swallow up; to use up; to waste; to annihilate.
    Famine and pestilence shall devour him.   --Ezek. vii. 15.
    I waste my life and do my days devour.   --Spenser.
 3. To enjoy with avidity; to appropriate or take in eagerly by the senses.
 Longing they look, and gaping at the sight,
 Devour her o'er with vast delight.   --Dryden.
 Syn: -- To consume; waste; destroy; annihilate.
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 devour
      v 1: destroy completely; "Fire had devoured our home"
      2: enjoy avidly; "She devoured his novels"
      3: eat immoderately; "Some people can down a pound of meat in
         the course of one meal" [syn: down, consume, go
         through]
      4: eat greedily; "he devoured three sandwiches" [syn: guttle,
          raven, pig]