Crossword-Solution: DEVOURS
We have 7 clues for the answer “DEVOURS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Wolfs down completely | 1 answer |
| Swallows up | 2 answers |
| Engulfs | 3 answers |
| Gobbles up | 5 answers |
| Gobbles down | 6 answers |
| Destroys | 20 answers |
| Eats | 22 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETRAE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with DEVOURS (5)
Here, too, you may find the curious but unlovable darlingtonia, a carnivorous plant that devours bumblebees, grasshoppers, ants, moths, and other insects, with insatiable appetite.
Why he has sacrificed himself to spare the very vanity that devours him, put rancors in the vessels of his peace, and his eternal jewel given to the common enemy of man, to make them kings, the seed of Banquo kings! He is magnificent!” “Isn't he always that?” cried Imogen hotly.
But I must say that I recognized at once that we had never understood the meaning of these words, so common and yet so sacred: JUSTICE, EQUITY, LIBERTY; that concerning each of these principles our ideas have been utterly obscure; and, in fact, that this ignorance was the sole cause, both of the poverty that devours us, and of all the calamities that have ever afflicted the human race.
XLIII The nation then with crisped locks and fair, That dwell between the seas and Arden Wood, Where Mosel streams and Rhene the meadows wear, A battel soil for grain, for pasture good, Their islanders with them, who oft repair Their earthen bulwarks ’gainst the ocean flood, The flood, elsewhere that ships and barks devours, But there drowns cities, countries, towns and towers; XLIV Both in one troop, and but a thousand all, Under another Robert fierce they run.
Blind mouths! that scarce themselves know how to hold A sheep-hook, or have learnt aught else the least That to the faithful herdman's art belongs! What recks it them? What need they? They are sped: And, when they list, their lean and flashy songs Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw; The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, But, swoln with wind and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread; Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said.
Quotes with DEVOURS (3)
I do not love men: I love what devours them.
Little Cinder Girl, they can't understand you. You rise from the as-heap in a blazeand only then do they recognize you as their one true love. While you pray beneath your mother's tree you carrve a phoenix into your palmwth aa hazel twig and coal; every night she devours more of you. You used to believe in angels. Now you believe in the makeover; if you can't get the grime off your faceand your foot into a size six heelwho will ever bother to notice you? The kettle and the br…
Shadow is ever besieged, for that is its nature. Whilst darkness devours, and light steals. And so one sees shadow ever retreat to hidden places, only to return in the wake of the war between dark and light.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, NYT, WSJ.
Used 5 times in crossword archives (2001–2023).