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Webster 1828 Edition

Devouring

DEVOURING

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ppr.

Eating greedily; consuming; wasting; destroying; annihilating.

Definition 2024

devouring

devouring

English

Verb

devouring

present participle of devour

Noun

devouring ‎(plural devourings)

The act by which something is devoured.
- 1982, Frederick Asals, Flannery O'Connor, the Imagination of Extremity (page 189)
  But like all the other symbolic devourings in the novel, this one too brings its revelation.