Usually means: Consuming something rapidly and completely.
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  1. devouring: Merriam-Webster
  2. devouring: Collins English Dictionary
  3. devouring: Vocabulary.com
  4. Devouring, devouring: Wordnik
  5. devouring: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. devouring: Wiktionary
  7. Devouring, devouring: Dictionary.com
  8. devouring: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. The Devouring: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Devouring: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. Devouring: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. devouring: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. devouring: FreeDictionary.org
  14. devouring: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. devouring: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. devouring: Legal dictionary

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▸ noun:  The act by which something is devoured.

Similar:
greedy, esurient, avid, desirous, devourment, ravagement, depredation, disemboweling, snatching, destruction, more...

Opposite:
spitting out, regurgitating, rejecting, abstaining

Types:
eating, drinking, smoking, chewing, swallowing, digesting, absorbing, ingesting, ingestion, more...

Phrases:
all devouring, self devouring, Saturn Devouring His Son, devouring a field mouse or two, more...

Adjectives:
all, mutual, self, more, such, man, great, actual, terrible, ceaseless, cannibalistic

Colors:
    crimson,     burgundy,     scarlet,     blood red,     maroon, more...



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Similar:
greedy, esurient, avid, desirous, devourment, ravagement, depredation, disemboweling, snatching, destruction, more...

Opposite:
spitting out, regurgitating, rejecting, abstaining

Types:
eating, drinking, smoking, chewing, swallowing, digesting, absorbing, ingesting, ingestion, more...

Phrases:
all devouring, self devouring, Saturn Devouring His Son, devouring a field mouse or two, more...

Adjectives:
all, mutual, self, more, such, man, great, actual, terrible, ceaseless, cannibalistic

Colors:
    crimson,     burgundy,     scarlet,     blood red,     maroon, more...



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