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

Their supporters with zero life experience are devouring their pie-in-the-sky mumbo jumbo. — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 5 July 2026

On America’s 250th birthday, there was former San Jose resident Joey Chestnut on a stage at Coney Island in New York City, devouring hot dogs faster than anyone. — Rick Hurd, Mercury News, 4 July 2026

There’s a snake devouring a frog whole. — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 18 June 2026

This squishy honor of a marshmallow doesn’t even require devouring it—the indicator that psychologists took as the signal of its depleted future life. — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 16 June 2026

Perhaps there could even be a real shudder of self-disgust on these shores—a recognition that our national pursuit of material happiness has immiserated much of the rest of the world and is now devouring itself. — Alex Ross, New Yorker, 15 June 2026

Like many arrivals from colder, cloudier climes, Hockney went all in on LA, buying a Ford Falcon and devouring John Rechy’s City of Night. — Mark Rozzo, Vanity Fair, 12 June 2026

And then there were those who apologized for not taking a photo before devouring a slice — or an entire pie! — Kari Barnett, Sun Sentinel, 10 June 2026

Growing up in the Lowcountry, summertime meant peeling shrimp around the table and devouring watermelon in the backyard. — Betsy Cribb Watson, Southern Living, 9 June 2026