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Engorge :: Engorge (v. t.) To swallow with greediness or in large quantities; to devour.

Voraginous :: Voraginous (a.) Pertaining to a gulf; full of gulfs; hence, devouring..

Lamia :: Lamia (n.) A monster capable of assuming a woman's form, who was said to devour human beings or suck their blood; a vampire; a sorceress; a witch..

Cultrivorous :: Cultrivorous (a.) Devouring knives; swallowing, or pretending to swallow, knives; -- applied to persons who have swallowed, or have seemed to swallow, knives with impunity..

Preyer :: Preyer (n.) One who, or that which, preys; a plunderer; a waster; a devourer..

Vermivorous :: Vermivorous (a.) Devouring worms; feeding on worms; as, vermivorous birds..

Aurivorous :: Aurivorous (a.) Gold-devouring.

Bollworm :: Bollworm (n.) The larva of a moth (Heliothis armigera) which devours the bolls or unripe pods of the cotton plant, often doing great damage to the crops..

Devoration :: Devoration (n.) The act of devouring.

Lurch :: Lurch (v. i.) To swallow or eat greedily; to devour; hence, to swallow up..

Eat :: Eat (v. t.) To chew and swallow as food; to devour; -- said especially of food not liquid; as, to eat bread..

Omnivorous :: Omnivorous (a.) All-devouring; eating everything indiscriminately; as, omnivorous vanity; esp. (Zool.), eating both animal and vegetable food..

Consume :: Consume (v. t.) To destroy, as by decomposition, dissipation, waste, or fire; to use up; to expend; to waste; to burn up; to eat up; to devour..

Mouth :: Mouth (v. t.) To take into the mouth; to seize or grind with the mouth or teeth; to chew; to devour.

Devour :: Devour (v. t.) To eat up with greediness; to consume ravenously; to feast upon like a wild beast or a glutton; to prey upon.

Chop :: Chop (v. t.) To seize or devour greedily; -- with up.

Cormorant :: Cormorant (n.) Any species of Phalacrocorax, a genus of sea birds having a sac under the beak; the shag. Cormorants devour fish voraciously, and have become the emblem of gluttony. They are generally black, and hence are called sea ravens, and coalgeese..

Prey :: Prey (n.) That which is or may be seized by animals or birds to be devoured; hence, a person given up as a victim..

Mouse :: Mouse (v. t.) To tear, as a cat devours a mouse..

Palmerworm :: Palmerworm (n.) Any hairy caterpillar which appears in great numbers, devouring herbage, and wandering about like a palmer. The name is applied also to other voracious insects..

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