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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

  1. verb To eat something quickly and hungrily.
  2. verb To destroy or consume something rapidly and completely.
  3. verb To take in eagerly with the mind, especially reading material.

gorge — full definition

  1. noun A deep, narrow valley or ravine, usually with steep rocky walls and often a river running through it.
  2. noun The throat or gullet.
  3. verb To eat greedily and to excess.

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