Devour
DEVOUR, verb transitive [Latin , to eat.]
1. To eat up; to eat with greediness; to eat ravenously, as a beast of prey, or as a hungry man.
We will say, some evil beast hath devoured him. [[Genesis 37#20|Genesis 37:20]].
In the morning, he shall devour the prey. [[Genesis 49#27|Genesis 49:27]].
2. To destroy; to consume with rapidity and violence.
I will send a fire into the house of Hazael, which shall devour the palaces of Ben-Hadad. [[Amos 1#4|Amos 1:4]].
Famine and pestilence shall devour him. [[Ezekiel 7#15|Ezekiel 7:15]].
3. To destroy; to annihilate; to consume.
He seemed in swiftness to devour the way.
4. To waste; to consume; to spend in dissipation and riot.
As soon as this thy son had come, who hath devoured thy living with harlots. [[Luke 15#30|Luke 15:30]].
5. To consume wealth and substance by fraud, oppression, or illegal exactions.
Ye devour widows houses. [[Matthew 23#14|Matthew 23:14]].
6. To destroy spiritually; to ruin the soul.
Your adversary, the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour [[1 Peter 5#8|1 Peter 5:8]].
7. To slay.
The sword shall devour the young lions. Nahum 2.
Longing they look, and gaping at the sight, devour her oer and oer with vast delight.