devour | Idiomator

Meaning: (transitive)To eat quickly,greedily,hungrily, orravenously.Synonyms:gobble,gorge,wolf2017[2013],Thomas Piketty, translated by Arthur Goldhammer,Capital in the Twenty-First Century, Belknap Press,→ISBN,page571:Once constituted, capital reproduces itself faster than output increases. The pastdevoursthe future.; (transitive,idiomatic)To rapidlydestroy,engulf, orlay waste.Synonyms:consume,devastate,overwhelmThe fire wasdevouringthe building.1611,The Holy Bible,[…](King James Version), London:[…]Robert Barker,[…],→OCLC,Isaiah1:20:If ye refuse[…]ye shall bedevouredwith the sword.2006,Edwin Black, chapter 1, inInternal Combustion:Blast after blast, fiery outbreak after fiery outbreak, like a flaming barrage from within,[…]most of Edison's grounds soon became an inferno. As though on an incendiary rampage, the fires systematicallydevouredthe contents of Edison's headquarters and facilities.; (transitive,idiomatic)To take inavidlywith theintellector with one'sgaze.She intended todevourthe book.1914November,Louis Joseph Vance, “An Outsider[…]”, inMunsey’s Magazine, volume LIII, number II, New York, N.Y.:The Frank A[ndrew]Munsey Company,[…], published1915,→OCLC, chapter I (Anarchy),page373, column 2:Little disappointed, then, she turned attention to "Chat of the Social World," gossip which exercised potent fascination upon the girl's intelligence. Shedevouredwith more avidity than she had her food those pretentiously phrased chronicles of the snobocracy—[…]—distilling therefrom an acid envy that robbed her napoleon of all its flavor.; (transitive,idiomatic)Toabsorborengrossthe mind fully, especially in adestructivemanner.Synonyms:devastate,overwhelmAfter the death of his wife, he wasdevouredby grief.; (originallydragslang,Internetslang,intransitive)Synonym ofeat: to be verygoodat something; toslay.Synonyms:go hard,kick ass;see alsoThesaurus:excelShedevoured! Sheleft no crumbs!

Examples:

EN: I think that the waves will devour Both boat and man, by and by,
ES: # Creo que las o-las se tra-ga-rán al fi-nal nave-gantes y bote.
EN: We can devour the manufacturers ... who ar swimming in grease up to their necks!
ES: ¡Ya la devoran los fabricantes por nosotros... que nadan en grasa hasta el cuello!
EN: Villains all, the brood of Satan, the rabble of hell, they devour the goods of the poor, their curse is your pay ...
ES: Villanos todos, ralea de Satanás, canallas del infierno, os coméis los bienes de los pobres, la maldición sea vuestra paga...
EN: They devour the goods of the poor
ES: Os coméis los bienes de los pobres
EN: Your experiments devour an enormous sum of money.
ES: Tus experimentos devoran una enorme suma de dinero.
EN: Dr. Seward, your patient, Renfield, whose blood I have just analyzed, is obsessed with the idea that he must devour living things in order to sustain his own life.
ES: Dr. Seward, su paciente Renfield... cuya sangre acabo de analizar... tiene la obsesión... de que debe devorar otros seres vivos... para alimentar su propia vida.
EN: "Woe unto you hypocrites, for you devour widows' homes, and for a pretence make long prayers."
ES: "El infortunio caiga sobre ustedes, hipócritas, sobre sus viudas devoradoras y sus casas, y por pretender hacer oraciones largas. "
EN: And the scripture saith that Satan shall go to and fro in the land, and up and down in it, as a roaring lion walketh about, seeking whom he may devour.
ES: Y las escrituras dicen que Satanás irá de un lado al otro en la tierra, y de arriba a abajo, caminando como un león rugiente, buscando a quién devorar.
EN: I'd take you with me to my part of the country, where we devour little babies.
ES: Te llevaría conmigo a la parte del país, donde devoramos niños pequeños,
EN: I devour those eyes of yours and have no appetite for anything else.
ES: Tus ojos, que devoro con pasión y que me quitan el apetito de todo lo demás.
EN: She was scared to death for a few hours. But then she recovered in time to devour a truck-driver's dinner.
ES: Estuvo muerta de miedo unas horas, pero luego se ha recuperado a tiempo para la cena.
EN: When the beasts like you... will devour each other... then the world... will belong to the little people.
ES: Cuando las bestias como usted se devoren entre sí entonces el mundo pertenecerá a la gente común.
EN: The most cold-blooded dragon you'll ever meet. She'll devour you like a cat swallows a mouse.
ES: Un dragón de sangre muy fría... que te devoraría como un gato a un ratón.
EN: "You not only slay and devour beasts, "you're so brazen as to kill men made in God's image.
ES: No sólo mataste y devoraste a los animales, sino que mataste a los hombres, hechos a imagen de Dios.
EN: That hatred will devour us. There's no hope.
ES: Seremos aniquilados por el odio sin esperanza alguna.

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