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King James Dictionary
• Devouring
• Devourer
• Devoured
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Vines' Expository Dictionary
• Devour
Webster Dictionary
• Self-Devouring
• Devouring
• Devourer
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Encyclopedias
McClintock and Strong's Bible Encyclopedia
• Comestor (or Le Mangeur, I.e., Devourer of Books), Pierre
Lexicons
• ἐσθίω , ἔσθω
• καταπίνω
• κατεσθίω , κατέσθω
• אָכַל
• אֲכַל
• אָכְלָה
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(1):

(v. t.) To eat up with greediness; to consume ravenously; to feast upon like a wild beast or a glutton; to prey upon.

(2):

(v. t.) To seize upon and destroy or appropriate greedily, selfishly, or wantonly; to consume; to swallow up; to use up; to waste; to annihilate.

(3):

(v. t.) To enjoy with avidity; to appropriate or take in eagerly by the senses.