devour
US: /dɪˈvaʊɝ/
UK: /dɪvˈaʊə/
UK: /dɪvˈaʊə/
English Vietnamese dictionary
devour /di'vauə/
- ngoại động từ
- ăn sống nuốt tươi; cắn xé, ăn ngấu nghiến
- the lion devoured the deer: con sư tử xé xác con nai ăn ngấu nghiến
- to devour the way: (thơ ca) phi nhanh nuốt lấy con đường (ngựa)
- to devour every word: nuốt lấy từng lời
- đọc ngấu nghiến; nhìn chòng chọc, nhìn như nuốt lấy, nhìn hau háu
- to devour a book: đọc ngấu nghiến quyển sách
- tàn phá, phá huỷ, thiêu huỷ
- the fire devoured large areas of forest: lửa thiêu huỷ nhiều vùng rừng rộng
- devoured by anxiety: bị nỗi lo âu giày vò
- ăn sống nuốt tươi; cắn xé, ăn ngấu nghiến
Advanced English dictionary
+ verb [VN]
1 to eat all of sth quickly especially because you are very hungry: He devoured half of his burger in one bite.
2 to read or look at sth with great interest and enthusiasm: She devoured everything she could lay her hands on:
books, magazines and newspapers.
3 (formal) to destroy sb/sth: Flames devoured the house.
Idioms: be devoured by sth to be filled with a strong emotion that seems to control you: She was devoured by envy and hatred.
Thesaurus dictionary
v.
1 wolf (down), gulp (down), bolt, swallow (up), gorge, gobble (up), gormandize, cram, stuff, eat (up) greedily, Archaic gluttonize; Colloq Brit pig, US and Canadian pig out (on):
He was so hungry when he came in that he devoured two whole pies and a plate of chips.
2 consume, waste, destroy, wipe out, ravage, annihilate, demolish, ruin, wreak havoc (up)on, devastate, obliterate, eradicate:
A quarter of Europe was already devoured by the plague.
3 relish, revel in, absorb, be absorbed by; engulf, consume, drink in, eat up, swallow up, take in; swamp, overcome, overwhelm:
He eagerly devoured all of Dickens's novels. The sea devoured its victims silently.
Collocation dictionary
ADV.
eagerly, greedily, hungrily
He devoured the food greedily.
| quickly
The animal quickly devoured its prey.
Concise English dictionary
devours|devoured|devouringdɪ'vaʊə
verb
+destroy completely
+enjoy avidly
+eat immoderately
+eat greedily
