devour

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• UK: /dɪˈvaʊə(ɹ)/
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• US: /dɪˈvaʊɚ/
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Inherited from Middle English devouren, from Old French devorer (Modern French dévorer), from Latin dēvorō, from vorō.

101 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: اِلْتَهَمَ (iltahama) — to eat greedily
• Central Bikol: habungal — to eat greedily
• Bulgarian: поглъщам (poglǎštam) — to eat greedily
• Bulgarian: ям лакомо (jam lakomo) — to eat greedily
• Catalan: devorar — to eat greedily
• Cornish: devorya — to eat greedily
• Czech: hltat — to eat greedily
• Czech: zhltnout — to eat greedily
• Danish: sluge — to eat greedily
• Dutch: verslinden — to eat greedily
• Dutch: schransen — to eat greedily
• Dutch: vreten — to eat greedily
• Esperanto: manĝegi — to eat greedily
• Esperanto: vori — to eat greedily
• Estonian: õgima — to eat greedily
• Finnish: ahmia — to eat greedily
• French: dévorer — to eat greedily
• German: verschlingen — to eat greedily
• German: fressen — to eat greedily
• German: schlingen — to eat greedily
• German: herunterschlingen — to eat greedily
• Greek: καταβροχθίζω (katavrochthízo) — to eat greedily
• Ancient Greek: λαφύσσω (laphússō) — to eat greedily
• Ancient Greek: δάπτω (dáptō) — to eat greedily
• Ancient Greek: δαρδάπτω (dardáptō) — to eat greedily
• Hebrew: טָרַף (taráf) — to eat greedily
• Hungarian: fal — to eat greedily
• Hungarian: zabál — to eat greedily
• Ido: devorar — to eat greedily
• Irish: plac — to eat greedily
• Italian: divorare — to eat greedily
• Italian: trangugiare — to eat greedily
• Italian: ingurgitare — to eat greedily
• Italian: ingozzarsi — to eat greedily
• Italian: affogarsi — to eat greedily
• Japanese: 貪る (musaboru) — to eat greedily
• Latin: vorō — to eat greedily
• Latin: peredō — to eat greedily
• Māori: whāō — to eat greedily
• Māori: horomiti — to eat greedily
• Māori: ngūngū — to eat greedily
• Middle English: freten — to eat greedily
• Middle English: devouren — to eat greedily
• Norwegian Bokmål: sluke — to eat greedily
• Norwegian Nynorsk: sluke — to eat greedily
• Occitan: devorar — to eat greedily
• Old English: fretan — to eat greedily
• Old Norse: gleypa — to eat greedily
• Persian: لمباندن (lombândan) — to eat greedily
• Polish: pałaszować — to eat greedily
• Polish: spałaszować — to eat greedily
• Polish: pożerać — to eat greedily
• Polish: pożreć — to eat greedily
• Portuguese: devorar — to eat greedily
• Romanian: devora — to eat greedily
• Russian: жрать (žratʹ) — to eat greedily
• Russian: лопать (lopatʹ) — to eat greedily
• Sanskrit: गिरति (girati) — to eat greedily
• Serbo-Croatian: pròždrijēti — to eat greedily
• Spanish: devorar — to eat greedily
• Spanish: jambar — to eat greedily
• Swedish: sluka — to eat greedily
• Telugu: తినేయు (tinēyu) — to eat greedily
• Thai: เขมือบ (kà-mʉ̀ʉap) — to eat greedily
• Tocharian B: śu- — to eat greedily
• Czech: pohltit — to rapidly destroy, engulf or lay waste
• French: dévorer — to rapidly destroy, engulf or lay waste
• German: zerstören — to rapidly destroy, engulf or lay waste
• German: vernichten — to rapidly destroy, engulf or lay waste
• German: verschlingen — to rapidly destroy, engulf or lay waste
• Italian: divorare — to rapidly destroy, engulf or lay waste
• Italian: consumare — to rapidly destroy, engulf or lay waste
• Middle English: freten — to rapidly destroy, engulf or lay waste
• Middle English: devouren — to rapidly destroy, engulf or lay waste
• Persian: طعمه حریق شدن (to'me-ye hariq šodan) — to rapidly destroy, engulf or lay waste
• Polish: pochłaniać — to rapidly destroy, engulf or lay waste
• Polish: pochłonąć — to rapidly destroy, engulf or lay waste
• Polish: pustoszyć — to rapidly destroy, engulf or lay waste
• Polish: spustoszyć — to rapidly destroy, engulf or lay waste
• Spanish: devorar — to rapidly destroy, engulf or lay waste
• Czech: zhltat — to take in avidly
• French: dévorer — to take in avidly
• German: verschlingen — to take in avidly
• Italian: divorare — to take in avidly
• Italian: ingurgitare — to take in avidly
• Italian: trangugiare — to take in avidly
• Italian: incamerare — to take in avidly
• Italian: assorbire — to take in avidly
• Italian: memorizzare — to take in avidly
• Persian: قورت دادن (qurt dâdan) — to take in avidly
• Polish: chłonąć — to take in avidly
• Czech: pohltit — to absorb or engross the mind fully
• German: besessen sein von — to absorb or engross the mind fully
• German: eingenommen sein von — to absorb or engross the mind fully
• Italian: divorare — to absorb or engross the mind fully
• Italian: consumare — to absorb or engross the mind fully
• Italian: assorbire — to absorb or engross the mind fully
• Italian: riempire — to absorb or engross the mind fully
• Persian: غرق شدن (ġarq šodan) — to absorb or engross the mind fully
• Persian: غوطهور شدن (ġute-var šodan) — to absorb or engross the mind fully
• Polish: chłonąć — to absorb or engross the mind fully