devoured

verb

past tense of devour
1
as in consumed
to destroy all trace of a series of devastating storms devoured the beach on the south side of the island

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2
as in spent
to make complete use of a catastrophic medical event that devoured their savings

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3
as in inhaled
to swallow or eat greedily the starving villagers simply devoured the relief food

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Recent Examples of devoured There’s a gluttonous amount of food content out there waiting to be devoured, but none of it is like Emeril Live. — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 28 July 2026 Likewise in southern France, where a wildfire outside the city of Bordeaux has devoured tens of thousands of hectares and prompted authorities to evacuate hundreds of thousands of residents and summer tourists. — Gerry Hadden, Christian Science Monitor, 27 July 2026 New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Missouri were recently devoured into a national fund. — Brett Owens, Forbes.com, 23 July 2026 Apocalyptic footage shows a Canadian train crew trapped in their locomotive as it’s devoured by a wildfire. — Frank Landymore, Futurism, 15 July 2026 It had been pulled into the river and devoured by an enormous crocodile. — Jack O'Connor, Outdoor Life, 8 July 2026 With roughly 6 1/2 minutes left, Chestnut had devoured 32 dogs to Gray’s 10, according to live unofficial results on ESPN. — Joe Marusak, Charlotte Observer, 4 July 2026 On Tuesday, El Tri played with an intensity that devoured Ecuador from the onset and increased the belief among Mexicans that this team could make history. — Jack Lang, New York Times, 1 July 2026 In the spring, arugula is often devoured by flea beetles, so plant it in the fall to avoid the pest. — Nadia Hassani, The Spruce, 29 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for devoured
  1. consumed
  2. spent
  3. inhaled
  4. exhausted
  5. gulped
  6. drained
  7. crammed
  8. absorbed
Verb
  • The evidence primarily concerns coffee consumed in customary amounts (8-10 ounces).
    — Robert Glatter, Forbes.com, 21 July 2026
  • Butter and Margarine Findings presented at Nutrition 2023 showed that people who consumed more than half a tablespoon of olive oil a day had a 28% lower risk of dying from dementia than peers who rarely used it.
    — Samantha Agate, Miami Herald, 21 July 2026
Definition of consumed
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  • Volkwine, lead foreman for Pivot Custom Skate Parks, a division of American Ramp Company, and his team have spent much of the last year helping to bring Idaho’s newest and biggest skate park to life.
    — Noah Daly July 31, Idaho Statesman, 31 July 2026
  • Baresi is regarded as an AC Milan icon, having spent his entire 20-year career with the club, winning six Serie A titles and three top European trophies, and captaining the team for 15 seasons before retiring in 1997.
    — CNN Money, CNN Money, 31 July 2026
Definition of spent
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  • There's been a drastic increase Fine particulates and gases, including carbon monoxide, are inhaled and can lodge deep within the lungs, causing inflammation and irritation.
    — Phaedra Trethan, USA Today, 19 July 2026
  • Dangers from wildfire smoke Smoke is made up of tiny particles that can be inhaled deep into a person's lungs and even enter the bloodstream.
    — Ava Berger, NPR, 16 July 2026
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  • Players were exhausted after nearly two years of shifting restrictions and the stress of constantly facing the possibility of solitary confinement in a foreign city.
    — Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 25 July 2026
  • While the use of subpoena power against journalists has always been highly controversial, officials in past administrations sometimes justified it by arguing it was used as a last resort, after other investigative avenues were exhausted.
    — Brian Stelter, CNN Money, 23 July 2026
Definition of exhausted
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  • That public has continually widened its gullet and gulped.
    — Dan Greene, New Yorker, 18 May 2026
  • Many years had passed since Caity Maple, a Sacramento councilmember, gulped down orange juice.
    — Ishani Desai, Sacbee.com, 10 May 2026
Definition of gulped
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  • Still, these legal battles and the year of strikes drained the UMWA financially.
    — Elijah TanAll, Encyclopedia Britannica, 29 July 2026
  • The soil is just as dense, heavy, and poorly drained as ever.
    — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 29 July 2026
Definition of drained
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  • To have so much capability crammed into a phone that bends in half is a marvel.
    — Eric Zeman, PC Magazine, 22 July 2026
  • At least 5,000 people perished, most of them in La Guaira state, a strip of cities and slums crammed between the coastal cordillera and the Caribbean Sea, half an hour from Caracas.
    — Rafael Osío Cabrices, Time, 20 July 2026
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  • Flores absorbed the method in Tambo Mayo, a village along the Ucayali River in northeastern Peru where she was born in 1950.
    — Gabriella Angeleti, The New York Review of Books, 1 Aug. 2026
  • Quickly stir until most of the flour is absorbed, then cook, stirring vigorously and breaking up pockets of dry flour as needed, until a thin film forms on bottom and sides of pan and dough comes together into a single mass, 2–3 minutes.
    — Jesse Szewczyk, Bon Appetit Magazine, 1 Aug. 2026
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