Devour and Eat

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Devour

Devour verb - To destroy all trace of.

Usage example: a series of devastating storms devoured the beach on the south side of the island

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Eat is a synonym for devour in activity topic. In some cases you can use "Eat" instead a verb "Devour", when it comes to topics like help, consume, swallow, ingest. popular alternative

Nearby Words: devouring, devourment

Eat

Eat verb - To take in as food.

Usage example: having gone all day without food, we greedily ate the hamburgers

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Devour is a synonym for eat in consume topic. You can use "Devour" instead a verb "Eat", if it concerns topics such as activity, help, ingest, feed on. popular alternative

Nearby Words: eating, eatable, eaten, eater

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heart	devour heart	eat heart
soul	devour soul	eat soul
people	devour people	eat people
children	devour children	eat children
Other words: flesh, meat, cake, time, way, food, corpse, anyone, humans, souls, enemies, animals, corpses.

Both words in one sentence

Sesame Street: Narrowly averted in an early episode, where — after he devour everything in sight — Cookie Monster attempts to eat Kermit The Frog.

Source: Family Unfriendly Death / Live-Action TV
After drinking the light from the Two Trees of Valinor, Ungoliant becomes so powerful that she actually threatens to eat Melkor and then devour all creation.

Source: Giant Space Flea from Nowhere
Devour the Dragon: Sandra willingly sacrifices herself to let the Lord of Jewels eat her core to become more powerful.

Source: Video Game / Legend of Mana

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