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What does devour mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word devour? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. To eat quickly, greedily, hungrily, or ravenously.
  2. To rapidly destroy, engulf, or lay waste.
  3. To take in avidly with the intellect or with one's gaze.
  4. To absorb or engross the mind fully, especially in a destructive manner.
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Young bluegills eat mainly zooplankton, but as they grow older, they become opportunistic and devour almost anything that fits into their mouths.
As food, wild turkeys eat its roots, and ruffed grouse, mourning doves, bobwhite, turkeys and juncos devour its seeds.
It burrows a tunnel far into a sandy bank on the riverside and dwells therein, safe from cold, wind, rain and creatures that would devour it.
Cooking a massive stack of Anzac biscuits for my workmates to devour tomorrow, and only burning a couple.
Even when I cooked dinner, which he'd devour with glee, he would feel no sense of reciprocity.
Anteaters have long snouts which they thrust into ant-heaps in order to devour the ants or termites.

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