devour
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
destroy completely
Fire had devoured our home
Types & categories
- ruin hypernym
Sense 2 verb
enjoy avidly
She devoured his novels
Types & categories
- relish hypernym
Sense 3 verb
eat immoderately
Some people can down a pound of meat in the course of one meal
Types & categories
- eat hypernym
Related & opposite
- devourer derivation
Sense 4 verb
eat greedily
he devoured three sandwiches
Types & categories
- eat hypernym
Related & opposite
- hog derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | ruin |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | relish |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | devourer |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | eat |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | hog |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | eat |