devouring

Verb

devour (third-person singular simple present devours, present participle devouring, simple past and past participle devoured)

1. (transitive) To eat quickly, greedily, hungrily, or ravenously.
   • Once constituted, capital reproduces itself faster than output increases. The past devours the future.2017 [2013], Thomas Piketty, translated by Arthur Goldhammer, Capital in the Twenty-First Century, Belknap Press, →ISBN, page 571

   Synonyms:

   gobble, gorge, wolf, engorge

2. (idiomatic, transitive) To rapidly destroy, engulf, or lay waste.
   • The fire was devouring the building.

   Synonyms:

   consume, devastate, overwhelm

3. (idiomatic, transitive) To take in avidly with the intellect or with one's gaze.
   • She intended to devour the book.
4. (idiomatic, transitive) To absorb or engross the mind fully, especially in a destructive manner.
   • After the death of his wife, he was devoured by grief.

   Synonyms:

   devastate, overwhelm

5. (Internet, intransitive) Synonym of eat: to be very good at something; to slay.
   • She devoured! She left no crumbs!

   Synonyms:

   go hard, kick ass, bang, eat, eat and leave no crumbs, excel, kick, rock, rule, shine