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devouring

adjective as in eating up

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And yet we keep devouring the ever-increasing array of Jewish dating apps and sites and Facebook groups--why?

The cartels that have, for the last several years, been devouring Mexico from the inside out have set up shop in Central America.

Like the French Revolution, the Tea Party Revolution is devouring its own children.

The Republicans all waited to eat their cheesecake while diligently devouring their greens.

On the Aspen ski slopes, the upperest class is devouring the upper class.

Even the two hired men sitting under another tree devouring the delicious pudding, paused to hear Benny laugh.

Look: Nature burns around us and rolls in the arms of Summer, and drinks in the devouring breath of her ruddy spouse.

The great white throne is set, and from beneath it a flame bursts forth devouring the guilty objects of his wrath.

As I was devouring the child with last kisses, it brisked up and jabbered out its vocabulary!

Eagles, vultures, ravens, and wolves were devouring the dead bodies with which the earth was covered.

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On this page you'll find 18 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to devouring, such as: consuming, annihilatory, corrosive, edacious, gluttonous, and voracious.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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