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