However, I can't help noticing, at this moment, that at first glance it seems inevitable that the shark will devour the man.
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Devour
//dɪˈvaʊɚ//
Synonyms for "devour" (181 found)
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Strong matches (54)
Related words (90)
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93 translations across 41 languages.
Ancient Greek
3 entries- δάπτω verb (to eat greedily)
- δαρδάπτω verb (to eat greedily)
- λαφύσσω verb (to eat greedily)
Arabic
1 entries- اِلْتَهَمَ verb (to eat greedily)
Bikol Central
1 entries- habungal verb (to eat greedily)
Bulgarian
2 entries- поглъщам verb (to eat greedily)
- ям лакомо verb (to eat greedily)
Catalan
1 entries- devorar verb (to eat greedily)
Cornish
1 entries- devorya verb (to eat greedily)
Czech
4 entries- hltat verb (to eat greedily)
- pohltit verb (to rapidly destroy, engulf or lay waste)
- pohltit verb (to absorb or engross the mind fully)
- zhltat verb (to take in avidly)
Danish
1 entries- sluge verb (to eat greedily)
Dutch
3 entries- schransen verb (to eat greedily)
- verslinden verb (to eat greedily)
- vreten verb (to eat greedily)
Esperanto
2 entries- manĝegi verb (to eat greedily)
- vori verb (to eat greedily)
Estonian
1 entries- õgima verb (to eat greedily)
Finnish
1 entries- ahmia verb (to eat greedily)
French
3 entries- dévorer verb (to eat greedily)
- dévorer verb (to rapidly destroy, engulf or lay waste)
- dévorer verb (to take in avidly)
German
4 entries- besessen sein von verb (to absorb or engross the mind fully)
- eingenommen sein von verb (to absorb or engross the mind fully)
- fressen verb (to eat greedily)
- herunterschlingen verb (to eat greedily)
Greek
1 entries- καταβροχθίζω verb (to eat greedily)
Hebrew
1 entries- טָרַף verb (to eat greedily)
Hungarian
2 entries- fal verb (to eat greedily)
- zabál verb (to eat greedily)
Ido
1 entries- devorar verb (to eat greedily)
Irish
1 entries- plac verb (to eat greedily)
Italian
4 entries- affogarsi verb (to eat greedily)
- assorbire verb (to take in avidly)
- assorbire verb (to absorb or engross the mind fully)
- consumare verb (to rapidly destroy, engulf or lay waste)
Japanese
1 entries- 貪る verb (to eat greedily)
Latin
2 entries- peredō verb (to eat greedily)
- vorō verb (to eat greedily)
Middle English
4 entries- devouren verb (to eat greedily)
- devouren verb (to rapidly destroy, engulf or lay waste)
- freten verb (to eat greedily)
- freten verb (to rapidly destroy, engulf or lay waste)
Māori
3 entries- horomiti verb (to eat greedily)
- ngūngū verb (to eat greedily)
- whāō verb (to eat greedily)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- sluke verb (to eat greedily)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- sluke verb (to eat greedily)
Occitan
1 entries- devorar verb (to eat greedily)
Old English
1 entries- fretan verb (to eat greedily)
Old Norse
1 entries- gleypa verb (to eat greedily)
Persian
4 entries- طعمه حریق شدن verb (to rapidly destroy, engulf or lay waste)
- غرق شدن verb (to absorb or engross the mind fully)
- غوطهور شدن verb (to absorb or engross the mind fully)
- قورت دادن verb (to take in avidly)
Polish
2 entries- pożerać verb (to eat greedily)
- pożreć verb (to eat greedily)
Portuguese
1 entries- devorar verb (to eat greedily)
Romanian
1 entries- devora verb (to eat greedily)
Russian
2 entries- жрать verb (to eat greedily)
- лопать verb (to eat greedily)
Sanskrit
1 entries- गिरति verb (to eat greedily)
Serbo-Croatian
1 entries- pròždrijēti verb (to eat greedily)
Spanish
3 entries- devorar verb (to eat greedily)
- devorar verb (to rapidly destroy, engulf or lay waste)
- jambar verb (to eat greedily)
Swedish
1 entries- sluka verb (to eat greedily)
Telugu
1 entries- తినేయు verb (to eat greedily)
Thai
1 entries- เขมือบ verb (to eat greedily)
Tocharian B
1 entries- śu verb (to eat greedily)
Sample sentences
18 total sentences available.
I will devour you little girl.
Source: tatoeba (366332)
The strong shall devour the meek's reward.
Source: tatoeba (704419)
I devour books of poetry.
Source: tatoeba (5937710)
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