 3 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
devouring
adjective: (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}]
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 Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
85 Moby Thesaurus words for "devouring":
a hog for, acquisitive, all-devouring, appetite, avaricious, avid,
bottomless, cannibalism, carnivorism, carnivority, carnivorousness,
chewing, consumption, coveting, covetous, cropping, deglutition,
devourment, dieting, dining, eating, epulation, esurient, feasting,
feeding, gluttonous, gluttony, gobbling, grabby, grasping, grazing,
greedy, herbivorism, herbivority, herbivorousness, hoggish, hunger,
ingestion, insatiable, insatiate, licking, limitless, manducation,
mastication, mercenary, messing, miserly, money-hungry, money-mad,
munching, nibbling, nutrition, omnivorism, omnivorous,
omnivorousness, omophagy, overgreedy, pantophagy, pasture,
pasturing, pecking, piggish, quenchless, rapacious, ravening,
ravenous, regalement, relishing, rumination, savoring, slakeless,
sordid, swinish, tasting, unappeasable, unappeased, unquenchable,
unsated, unsatisfied, unslakeable, unslaked, vegetarianism, venal,
voracious, wolfing
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