devorar — meaning in English
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English meaning
- devour verb To eat something quickly and hungrily.
- gorge noun A deep, narrow valley or ravine, usually with steep rocky walls and often a river running through it.
- murder noun The crime of deliberately killing another person.
- scoff verb To speak about something with scorn or mockery, treating it as ridiculous.
- wolf noun A large wild canine, Canis lupus, that lives and hunts in packs.
Senses
devorar is used for these senses in English:
- devour (transitive) To eat quickly, greedily, hungrily, or ravenously.
- devour (transitive, idiomatic) To rapidly destroy, engulf, or lay waste.
- gobble up (transitive) To consume [something] rapidly.
- gorge (intransitive, reflexive) To stuff the gorge or gullet with food; to eat greedily and in large quantities. [with on]
- murder (figuratively, colloquial, British) To devour, ravish.
- scoff (British, Newfoundland, slang) To eat food quickly.
- wolf (transitive) To devour; to gobble; to eat (something) voraciously.
devour — full definition
- verb To eat something quickly and hungrily.
- verb To destroy or consume something rapidly and completely.
- verb To take in eagerly with the mind, especially reading material.
gorge — full definition
- noun A deep, narrow valley or ravine, usually with steep rocky walls and often a river running through it.
- noun The throat or gullet.
- verb To eat greedily and to excess.