Devourer

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    One who devours.

    "It is doubtful, whether we ought to ascribe any superior qualities to the more ancient Africans; for we find them represented […] as proud, lazy, deceitful, thievish, […] devourers of human flesh, and quaffers of human blood […]"

  2. 2
    someone who eats greedily or voraciously wordnet

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preyer

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"Time is the devourer of things."

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English devourere; equivalent to devour + -er.

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