<span class="searchmatch">devouring</span> present participle and gerund of <span class="searchmatch">devour</span> <span class="searchmatch">devouring</span> (plural <span class="searchmatch">devourings</span>) The act by which something is <span class="searchmatch">devoured</span>. 1982, Frederick Asals, Flannery...
From <span class="searchmatch">devour</span> + -ment. <span class="searchmatch">devourment</span> (countable and uncountable, plural <span class="searchmatch">devourments</span>) The act of <span class="searchmatch">devouring</span> something....
<span class="searchmatch">devourings</span> plural of <span class="searchmatch">devouring</span>...
Rhymes: -aʊ.ə(ɹ) <span class="searchmatch">devour</span> (third-person singular simple present <span class="searchmatch">devours</span>, present participle <span class="searchmatch">devouring</span>, simple past and past participle <span class="searchmatch">devoured</span>) (transitive)...
all-<span class="searchmatch">devouring</span> (not comparable) Synonym of all-consuming...
from Middle English devourere; equivalent to <span class="searchmatch">devour</span> + -er. <span class="searchmatch">devourer</span> (plural <span class="searchmatch">devourers</span>) One who <span class="searchmatch">devours</span>. 1774, Edward Long, The History of Jamaica, page...
<span class="searchmatch">devoured</span> simple past and past participle of <span class="searchmatch">devour</span>...
From <span class="searchmatch">devour</span> + -able. <span class="searchmatch">devourable</span> (comparative more <span class="searchmatch">devourable</span>, superlative most <span class="searchmatch">devourable</span>) Able to be <span class="searchmatch">devoured</span>. boulevarde...
<span class="searchmatch">devourers</span> plural of <span class="searchmatch">devourer</span>...
<span class="searchmatch">devours</span> third-person singular simple present indicative of <span class="searchmatch">devour</span>...