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devour
werkwoord
1 devour
Destroy completely.
Roget 298:
eat,
feed,
fare,
devour,
swallow,
take;
gulp,
bolt,
snap;
fall to;
despatch,
dispatch;
discuss;
take down,
get down,
gulp down;
lay in,
tuck in [Slang];
lick,
pick,
peck;
gormandize
etc.
957;
bite,
champ,
munch,
cranch†,
craunch†,
crunch,
chew,
masticate,
nibble,
gnaw,
mumble.
live on;
feed upon,
batten upon,
fatten upon,
feast upon;
browse,
graze,
crop,
regale;
carouse
etc.
(make merry)
840;
eat heartily,
do justice to,
play a good knife and fork,
banquet.
break bread,
break one's fast;
breakfast,
lunch,
dine,
take tea,
sup.
drink in,
drink up,
drink one's fill;
quaff,
sip,
sup;
suck,
suck up;
lap;
swig;
swill [Slang],
chugalug [Slang],
tipple
etc.
(be drunken)
959;
empty one's glass,
drain the cup;
toss off,
toss one's glass;
wash down,
crack a bottle,
wet one's whistle.
purvey
etc.
637.
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3 devour
Eat up completely, as with great appetite.
synoniemen: consume, demolish, down, go through.
Roget 162:
be destroyed
&c.;
perish;
fall to the ground;
tumble,
topple;
go to pieces,
fall to pieces;
break up;
crumble to dust;
go to the dogs,
go to the wall,
go to smash,
go to shivers,
go to wreck,
go to pot,
go to wrack and ruin;
go by the board,
go all to smash;
be all over,
be all up,
be all with;
totter to its fall.
destroy;
do away with,
make away with;
nullify;
annual
etc.
756;
sacrifice,
demolish;
tear up;
overturn,
overthrow,
overwhelm;
upset,
subvert,
put an end to;
seal the doom of,
do in,
do for,
dish [Slang],
undo;
break up,
cut up;
break down,
cut down,
pull down,
mow down,
blow down,
beat down;
suppress,
quash,
put down,
do a job on;
cut short,
take off,
blot out;
dispel,
dissipate,
dissolve;
consume.
smash,
crash,
quell,
squash,
squelch,
crumple up,
shatter,
shiver;
batter to pieces,
tear to pieces,
crush to pieces,
cut to pieces,
shake to pieces,
pull to pieces,
pick to pieces;
laniate†;
nip;
tear to rags,
tear to tatters;
crush to atoms,
knock to atoms;
ruin;
strike out;
throw over,
knock down over;
fell,
sink,
swamp,
scuttle,
wreck,
shipwreck,
engulf,
ingulf†,
submerge;
lay in ashes,
lay in ruins;
sweep away,
erase,
wipe out,
expunge,
raze;
level with the dust,
level with the ground;
waste;
atomize,
vaporize.
deal destruction,
desolate,
devastate,
lay waste,
ravage gut;
disorganize;
dismantle
etc.
(render useless)
645;
devour,
swallow up,
sap,
mine,
blast,
bomb,
blow to smithereens,
drop the big one,
confound;
exterminate,
extinguish,
quench,
annihilate;
snuff out,
put out,
stamp out,
trample out;
lay in the dust,
trample in the dust;
prostrate;
tread under foot;
crush under foot,
trample under foot;
lay the ax to the root of;
make short work of,
make clean sweep of,
make mincemeat of;
cut up root and branch,
chop into pieces,
cut into ribbons;
fling to the winds,
scatter to the winds;
throw overboard;
strike at the root of,
sap the foundations of,
spring a mine,
blow up,
ravage with fire and sword;
cast to the dogs;
eradicate
etc.
301.
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4 devour
Eat greedily:
— He devoured three sandwiches.
synoniemen: guttle, pig, raven.
Nederlands: vreten, schransen, binnenspelen, buffelen, bunkeren, metselen, opschransen, opschrokken, opslokken, schrokken, slokken, verslinden, verzwelgen, zwelgen ... meer laten zien
zelfstandig naamwoord
Roget 957:
gluttony;
greed,
avarice;
greediness
etc.
adj.;
voracity.
epicurism;
good living,
high living;
edacity†,
gulosity†,
crapulence†;
guttling†,
guzzling;
pantophagy†.
good cheer,
blow out;
feast
etc.
(food)
298;
gastronomy,
batterie de cuisine [Fr.].
epicure,
bon vivant,
gourmand;
glutton,
cormorant,
hog,
belly god,
Apicius†,
gastronome;
gourmet
etc.
954.1,
868.
v..
gormandize,
gorge;
overgorge†,
overeat oneself;
engorge,
eat one's fill,
cram,
stuff;
guttle†,
guzzle;
bolt,
devour,
gobble up;
gulp
etc.
(swallow food)
298;
raven,
eat out of house and home.
have the stomach of an ostrich;
play a good knife and fork
etc.
(appetite)
865.
pamper.
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