From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Devour \De*vour"\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Devoured}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Devouring}.] [F. d['e]vorer, fr. L. devorare; de + vorare to eat greedily, swallow up. See {Voracious}.]
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.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
adjective
1: destroyed or wasted as if by eating; "forests devoured by flame"; "an inheritance eaten up by debt" [syn: {eaten up(p)}]
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