Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Devour

Devour , transitive verb

[French dévorer, from Latin devorare; de + vorare to eat greedily, swallow up. See Voracious.]

1.
To eat up with greediness; to consume ravenously; to feast upon like a wild beast or a glutton; to prey upon.
Some evil beast hath devoured him. — Gen. xxxvii. 20
2.
To seize upon and destroy or appropriate greedily, selfishly, or wantonly; to consume; to swallow up; to use up; to waste; to annihilate.
Famine and pestilence shall devour him. — Ezek. vii. 15
I waste my life and do my days devour. — Spenser
3.
To enjoy with avidity; to appropriate or take in eagerly by the senses.
Longing they look, and gaping at the sight, Devour her o'er with vast delight. — Dryden