DEVOURING: Synonyms and Related Words. What is Another Word for DEVOURING?

Need another word that means the same as “devouring”? Find 3 synonyms and 30 related words for “devouring” in this overview.

The synonyms of “Devouring” are: avid, esurient, greedy

Devouring as an Adjective

Definitions of "Devouring" as an adjective

According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “devouring” as an adjective can have the following definitions:

• (of an unpleasant feeling) totally absorbing.
• (often followed by `for') ardently or excessively desirous.
• Eating food or prey hungrily or quickly.
• (of fire or a similar force) destructively consuming.

Synonyms of "Devouring" as an adjective (3 Words)

avid	Ardently or excessively desirous. An avid ambition to succeed.
esurient	Devouring or craving food in great quantities. Fell into the esurient embrance of a predatory enemy.
greedy	Having an excessive desire or appetite for food. Greedy for money and power.

Usage Examples of "Devouring" as an adjective

• Fierce devouring affection.
• A devouring sense of loneliness.
• Before him is a devouring fire.
• The wolf is a devouring beast.

Associations of "Devouring" (30 Words)

beverage	Any liquid suitable for drinking. May I take your beverage order.
buffet	A meal set out on a buffet at which guests help themselves. A cold buffet lunch.
chomp	The act of gripping or chewing off with the teeth and jaws. She chomped on a roll.
digest	A substance or mixture obtained by digestion. The government digested the entire law into a code.
diner	A restaurant that resembles a dining car.
drink	Drink excessive amounts of alcohol be an alcoholic. The mother drinks in every word of her son on the stage.
eagerly	With eagerness; in an eager manner. Original illustrations are eagerly sought by collectors.
eat	Eat a meal take a meal. These make great party eats.
flavour	A substance used to alter or enhance the taste of food or drink a flavouring. The faint exasperation that had flavoured her tone.
foodstuff	A substance that can be used or prepared for use as food. Rationing of staple foodstuffs was introduced.
glutton	An excessively greedy eater. He s a glutton for adventure.
gobble	Eat (something) hurriedly and noisily. He gobbled up the rest of his sandwich.
gourmand	A person who enjoys eating and often eats too much.
gulp	An act of gulping food or drink. He finished it at a single gulp.
imbibe	Take (gas, light or heat) into a solution. If one does not imbibe the culture one cannot succeed.
ingest	Take up mentally. Lead will poison anyone if enough is ingested.
liqueur	A chocolate with a liqueur filling. A box of liqueurs.
nip	Sever or remove by pinching or snipping. I m just nipping down to the Post Office.
overeat	Overeat or eat immodestly make a pig of oneself. If your friends overeat you re more likely to overeat too.
quaff	Drink (something, especially an alcoholic drink) heartily. Porter is a dark malty quaff.
quench	An act of quenching a very hot substance. He only pursued her to quench an aching need.
ravening	Excessively greedy and grasping. Ravening wolves.
savor	Derive or receive pleasure from; get enjoyment from; take pleasure in. Savor the soup.
sip	Drink in sips. She took a sip of the red wine.
slake	Satisfy (thirst. Restaurants worked to slake the Italian obsession with food.
slurp	A mouthful of liquid drunk with a loud sucking sound. He slurped noisily from a wine glass.
sup	Take solid or liquid food into the mouth a little at a time either by drinking or by eating with a spoon. The latest sup from those blokes at the brewery.
swallow	The act of swallowing. He downed his drink in one swallow.
tang	Any of various kelps especially of the genus Laminaria. The clean salty tang of the sea.
thirst	A feeling of needing or wanting to drink something. A thirst for knowledge.