Synonyms of devouring

devouring 1 of 2

adjective

as in gobbling

Related Words

• gobbling
• gorging
• gulping
• insatiable
• wolfish
• ravenous
• gormandizing
• unquenchable
• starving
• voracious
• gluttonous
• hearty
• hungry
• starved
• swinish
• hoggish
• greedy
• piggish
• rapacious
• unslakable
• famished
• edacious
• malnourished
• peckish
• undernourished
• underfed
• esurient
• empty

Dissimilar Words

• full
• content
• satisfied
• stuffed
• sated
• glutted
• satiated

devouring

2 of 2

verb

present participle of devour

1

as in consuming

to destroy all trace of

a series of devastating storms devoured the beach on the south side of the island

Synonyms & Similar Words

• consuming
• demolishing
• ruining
• wrecking
• eating (up)
• draining
• devastating
• eradicating
• shattering
• depleting
• extinguishing
• spending
• exhausting
• gutting
• expending
• obliterating
• pulverizing
• wasting
• smashing
• annihilating
• exterminating
• decimating
• removing
• using up
• wiping out
• desolating
• tearing down
• extirpating
• razing
• stamping (out)
• blotting out
• doing in
• rubbing out

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• protecting
• saving
• preserving
• building
• constructing
• raising
• conserving
• erecting
• putting up

2

as in spending

to make complete use of

a catastrophic medical event that devoured their savings

Synonyms & Similar Words

• consuming
• spending
• draining
• exhausting
• absorbing
• burning
• reducing
• eating
• depleting
• using
• expending
• emptying
• playing out
• decreasing
• drawing down
• running out of
• wasting
• using up
• diminishing
• lowering
• dwindling
• weakening
• downsizing
• undermining
• impoverishing
• bankrupting
• sapping
• crippling
• lessening
• cleaning (out)
• disabling
• blowing
• debilitating
• enfeebling
• abating
• guzzling
• squandering
• dissipating
• lavishing
• drying up
• de-escalating
• throwing away
• running through
• frittering (away)
• misspending

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• replacing
• increasing
• renewing
• enlarging
• enforcing
• reinforcing
• strengthening
• augmenting
• repairing
• restoring
• preserving
• rebuilding
• saving
• reviving
• conserving
• bolstering
• fortifying

3

as in inhaling

to swallow or eat greedily

the starving villagers simply devoured the relief food

Synonyms & Similar Words

• inhaling
• gulping
• cramming
• scarfing
• scoffing
• gobbling
• gorging
• ravening
• glutting
• wolfing
• slopping
• bolting
• gormandizing
• ingurgitating
• overeating
• swilling
• pigging out

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• picking
• nibbling
• pecking

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of devouring

Adjective

That wall of water roared downstream, smashing and devouring. — Karen Valby, Vanity Fair, 16 June 2026

Family drama fueled by Dorothy's world-devouring, man-eating antics aside, Scarpetta is also aiming to separate itself from the competition by leveraging a unique narrative structure that essentially adapts two of Cornwell's books in a single season. — Matt Cabral, Entertainment Weekly, 9 Mar. 2026

Verb

The Milky Way has something of a torrid and violent history, given that our galaxy has fueled its own growth by cannibalistically devouring smaller galaxies. — Robert Lea, Space.com, 24 Aug. 2026

The comedy icon, who turned 100 in June, was born in the silent era and grew up in Brooklyn devouring double bills at his neighborhood theater in the 1930s. — Los Angeles Times, 21 Aug. 2026

Even fussy kids were devouring their slices and were largely eating their crusts. — Laura Ness, Mercury News, 16 Aug. 2026

Sainsbury was inspired to create the podcast after devouring hit true crime pods like Serial, The Teacher’s Pet and Amanda Knox’s Blood Money and realizing there was a clear parody angle. — Max Goldbart, Deadline, 11 Aug. 2026

The cave was used to film scenes with Polyphemus, the Cyclops who traps Odysseus and his crew in his cave before devouring several of the men. — Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 9 Aug. 2026

And further back than that—the child my mother still describes, devouring books one after another, genre irrelevant. — Literary Hub, 6 Aug. 2026

The youthfulness behind the order was balanced by his commitment to fitness and his role as a professional hockey player that kept him from devouring it all. — Scott Powers, New York Times, 30 July 2026

Just because an ebook is charting on Kindle doesn’t mean people are devouring it. — Will Oremus, The Atlantic, 27 July 2026