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 swarms of flies that roamed the planet like a devouring fog enclosed the top of the tower, building new, shivering walls, buzzing in a frenzy of life and hunger. — Brian Truitt, USA Today, 27 July 2026

Polyphemus The most famous of the Cyclops, Polyphemus traps Odysseus and his crew in his cave before devouring several of the men. — Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 26 July 2026

Political theory students still study their practical wisdom, often after devouring centuries of more speculative and theoretical texts. — Steven Johnson, Washington Post, 14 July 2026

Many of them, like Tubbs, were refugee Midwesterners, sick of parching droughts and devouring plagues of locusts, the insects descending in buzzing clouds thick enough to blacken the noonday sun. — Literary Hub, 10 July 2026

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