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Word of the Day - devour
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devour
/dɪˈvaʊə/
verb
[with object]
1 Eat (food or prey) hungrily or quickly.
1.1 (of fire or a similar force) destroy completely.
1.2 Read quickly and eagerly.
1.3 be devoured - Be totally absorbed by a powerful feeling.
Origin
Middle English from Old French devorer, from Latin devorare, from de- ‘down’ + vorare ‘to swallow’.
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Joe had an irresistible urge to devour all the words in the dictionary. He blamed his father who had gone through every volume of the encyclopedia the family owned between his 70th and 89th birthdays.
