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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 devouring
      adj : (often followed by `for') ardently or excessively desirous;
            "avid for adventure"; "an avid ambition to succeed";
            "fierce devouring affection"; "the esurient eyes of an
            avid curiosity"; "greedy for fame" [syn: avid, devouring(a),
             esurient, greedy]