devour
English
/dɪˈvaʊ(w)ə(ɹ)/
verb
Definitions
- To eat quickly, greedily, hungrily, or ravenously.
- To rapidly destroy, engulf, or lay waste.
- To take in avidly with the intellect or with one's gaze.
- To absorb or engross the mind fully, especially in a destructive manner.
Etymology
Root from Proto-Indo-European *gʷerh₃- (devour, swallow, eat, shallow).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*gʷerh₃-
Gloss
devour, swallow, eat, shallow
Concept
Semantic Field
Food and drink
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Kanji
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Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- carnivorous English
- devourable English
- devourer English
- devoureth English
- devourment English
- interdevour English
- voracious English
- vorago English
- -vorus Latin
- carnivorus Latin
- devoro Latin
- dēvorāre Latin
- gurges Latin
- gurgulio Latin
- voracitas Latin
- vorago Latin
- vorare Latin
- vorator Latin
- voratrina Latin
- voratrix Latin
- vorax Latin
- voro Latin
- vorācitātem Latin
- vorāginōsus Latin
- vorāgō Latin
- vorāre Latin
- vorātrīcem Latin
- vorātōrem Latin
- vorō Latin
- voragine Italian
- carnivore French
- βάραθρον Ancient Greek
- βιβρώσκω Ancient Greek
- βορά Ancient Greek
- βρῶμα Ancient Greek
- βρῶσις Ancient Greek
- *gʷerh₃- Proto-Indo-European
- *gʷr̥h₃-tlom Proto-Indo-European
- *h₁ōd- Proto-Indo-European
- *kwerkō Proto-Germanic
- *gora Proto-Slavic
- *goraľь Proto-Slavic
- *gъrdlo Proto-Slavic
- *žerdlo Proto-Slavic
- *žьrati Proto-Slavic
- gerlo, *žьrdlo Proto-Slavic
- hangër Albanian
- garganta Old Portuguese
- girtas Lithuanian
- girtuoklis Lithuanian
- *engranti Proto-Albanian
- *grinja Proto-Albanian
- *gur- Proto-Albanian
- *gerˀtei Proto-Balto-Slavic