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interdevour

interdevour verb: of many people, creatures etc.: to devour each other.

Verb

interdevour (third-person singular simple present interdevours, present participle interdevouring, simple past and past participle interdevoured)

  1. (rare) Of many people, creatures etc.: to devour each other.
    • Epicurus said of the lawes that the worst were so necessary unto us, that without them men would enterdevour one another.1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC
    • His prime suspect for cannibalism was a nightmarish object — a pack of nine galaxies in a feeding frenzy, interdevouring one another.1987, Richard Preston, First Light

Forms of interdevour

third-person singular presentinterdevours
present participleinterdevouring
past participleinterdevoured
pastinterdevoured

Origin of interdevour

From inter- + devour.

Questions about interdevour

What does interdevour mean?
Interdevour means of many people, creatures etc.: to devour each other.
What part of speech is interdevour?
Interdevour is a verb.
What is the past tense of interdevour?
The past tense of interdevour is interdevoured.

Words near interdevour in the dictionary

  1. interdermal
  2. interdestructive
  3. interdestructiveness
  4. interdeveloper
  5. interdevice
  6. interdevour
  7. interdevoured
  8. interdevouring
  9. interdevours
  10. interdialect
  11. interdialectal

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