[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

devour \devour"\, v. t. imp.  p. p. devoured; p. pr.  vb.
   n. devouring. f. d'evorer, 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.
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            some evil beast hath devoured him.    --gen. xxxvii.
                                                  20.
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   2. to seize upon and destroy or appropriate greedily,
      selfishly, or wantonly; to consume; to swallow up; to use
      up; to waste; to annihilate.
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            famine and pestilence shall devour him. --ezek. vii.
                                                  15.
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            i waste my life and do my days devour. --spenser.
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   3. to enjoy with avidity; to appropriate or take in eagerly
      by the senses.
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            longing they look, and gaping at the sight,
            devour her o'er with vast delight.    --dryden.

   syn: to consume; waste; destroy; annihilate.
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see also:
devoured devouring voracious 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

devouring
     adj : 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, devouringa,
            esurient, greedy
see also:
avid devouringa esurient greedy 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

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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