Meaning & use
devouring
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Eating something hungrily or voraciously; consuming or destroying something rapidly and completely.
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The children were devouring their pizza within minutes of it arriving.
Wildfires were devouring the dry hillside at an alarming rate.
A note on using this word
Frequently used figuratively for absorbing something eagerly, as in 'devouring a book'.
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