Absorb
Devours
Both words in one sentence
- He berates Greed for betraying their "family" and then shortly afterward devours his "brother", Gluttony to absorb his powers while Gluttony cries out in agony.
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Justified even further since he can absorb the mass of anything he devours, thus if he ate 60 people, he is extremely dense and now has the weight of 60 people in a centralized human-shaped body.
Source: Not the Fall That Kills You -
He devours sentient living creatures to absorb their powers, which range from setting foes on fire to slicing them into bits to outright Body Horror.
Source: Creepy Awesome
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