DEVOUR Synonyms

• being or moving lower in position or less in some value

• soft fine feathers

• English physician who first described Down's syndrome (1828-1896)

• (American football) a complete play to advance the football

• (usually plural) a rolling treeless highland with little soil

• fine soft dense hair (as the fine short hair of cattle or deer or the wool of sheep or the undercoat of certain dogs)

• spatially or metaphorically from a higher to a lower level or position

• away from a more central or a more northerly place

• paid in cash at time of purchase

• from an earlier time

• to a lower intensity

• in an inactive or inoperative state

• extending or moving from a higher to a lower place

• becoming progressively lower

• being put out in a game of baseball

• understood perfectly

• lower than previously

• shut

• not functioning (temporarily or permanently)

• filled with melancholy and despondency

• drink down entirely

• eat up completely, as with great appetite

• bring down or defeat (an opponent)

• shoot at and force to come down

• cause to come or go down

• improve or perfect by pruning or polishing

• the characteristic sound made by a turkey cock

• eat hastily without proper chewing

• make a gurgling sound, characteristic of turkeys

• a deep ravine (usually with a river running through it)

• a narrow pass (especially one between mountains)

• the passage between the pharynx and the stomach

• overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself

• any of various predatory carnivorous canine mammals of North America and Eurasia that usually hunt in packs

• Austrian composer (1860-1903)

• a man who is aggressive in making amorous advances to women

• German classical scholar who claimed that the Iliad and Odyssey were composed by several authors (1759-1824)

• a cruelly rapacious person

• eat hastily

• take in solid food

• eat a meal; take a meal

• take in food; used of animals only

• worry or cause anxiety in a persistent way

• use up (resources or materials)

• cause to deteriorate due to the action of water, air, or an acid

• a large and hurried swallow

• a spasmodic reflex of the throat made as if in swallowing

• to swallow hurriedly or greedily or in one draught

• utter or make a noise, as when swallowing too quickly

• serve oneself to, or consume regularly

• take up mentally

• the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object

• miscellaneous unspecified objects

• informal terms for personal possessions

• senseless talk

• unspecified qualities required to do or be something

• information in some unspecified form

• a critically important or characteristic component

• cram into a cavity

• press or force

• obstruct

• overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself

• treat with grease, fill, and prepare for mounting

• fill tightly with a material

• fill with a stuffing while cooking

• destroy completely

• ruin or destroy

• eat up completely, as with great appetite

• defeat soundly and humiliatingly

• cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly

• overwhelm or overpower

• eat greedily

• overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli

• charge someone with too many tasks

• cover completely or make imperceptible

• overcome by superior force

• domestic swine

• a coarse obnoxious person

• a person regarded as greedy and pig-like

• uncomplimentary terms for a policeman

• mold consisting of a bed of sand in which pig iron is cast

• a crude block of metal (lead or iron) poured from a smelting furnace

• live like a pig, in squalor

• eat greedily

• give birth to (piglets)

• large black bird with a straight bill and long wedge-shaped tail

• obtain or seize by violence

• prey on or hunt for

• eat greedily

• feed greedily

• undergo or live through a difficult experience

• apply thoroughly; think through

• eat up completely, as with great appetite