Krysten Ritter

After 'Jessica Jones' came out, I started hearing firsthand from a lot of women who were so inspired by the character, who felt represented, who felt like watching Jessica on screen helped them in their own lives. Women are devouring content like that because everybody is complicated; not everybody is one thing.

American Actress

Jacob Epstein

My reading and drawing drew me away from the ordinary interests, and I lived a great deal in the world of imagination, feeding upon any book that fell into my hands. When I had got hold of a really thick book like Hugo's 'Les Miserables,' I was happy and would go off into a corner to devour it.

British Sculptor

David Mamet

The product of the artist has become less important than the fact of the artist. We wish to absorb this person. We wish to devour someone who has experienced the tragic. In our society this person is much more important than anything he might create.

American Dramatist

Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford

Ambition devours gold and drinks blood and climbs so high by other men's heads, that at the length in the fall, it breaks its own neck; therefore, it is better to live in humble content than in high care and trouble.

English Statesman

Celine Buckens

I actually love history. I've devoured book after book of stories from World War I and World War II. They're really two sections of world history that really interest me.

Belgian Actress

Honore de Balzac

Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.

French Novelist

Will Cuppy

Some people lose all respect for the lion unless he devours them instantly. There is no pleasing some people.

American Writer

Emma Healey

Ann Radcliffe was an early influence; I devoured her books while I should have been studying for my GCSEs.

British Novelist

Emil Cioran

When we cannot be delivered from ourselves, we delight in devouring ourselves.

Romanian Philosopher

Barbara Amiel

They are feeding the world that will devour them and their children.

British Journalist

Used to describe eating when one is extremely hungry or greedy.

Intense Hunger

Often implies eating very quickly, without taking much time.

Speedy Eating

Can suggest eating as a response to strong emotions, not just actual hunger.

Emotional Eating

Shows a great enthusiasm for reading, similar to how one would eagerly eat.

Passionate Reader

Reflects a desire to learn or know more about a subject quickly and thoroughly.

Intellectual Curiosity

Used to admire someone's ability to learn or understand something rapidly.

Quick Learning

Highlights complete destruction, leaving nothing behind.

Total Destruction

Indicates the speed and completeness of the consuming process.

Swift Consumption

Can be metaphorically applied to financial or resource depletion.

Economic Metaphor

Indicates someone's undivided attention or fascination, similar to being 'hooked'.

Captured Attention

Suggests being so engrossed in something that one is not aware of anything else.

Rapt Engagement

Conveys a person's intense enthusiasm towards an engaging activity or event.

Intense Enthusiasm

 Among the most important of these are white blood cells, known as macrophages, which devour bacteria and damage tissue through a process known as phagocytosis, in addition to producing growth factors to spur healing. And because these tiny soldiers need to travel through the blood to get to the wound site,

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 But it is very enlightening. With help from their smaller strawberry hermit crab cousins, they devour the carcass within a week, carrying the bones every which way into their lairs. The scientists are now thinking something similar would have happened to whoever died at the ren.

Coconut Crabs Devour Pig...

 and many different species evolved and came to dominate ocean habitats worldwide. Some even took to fresh water rivers to hunt. Many prowled the open ocean, devouring fish, sharks, plesiosaurs, sea turtles, sea birds, and sometimes even smaller mosasaurs.

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 and we see pictures of this thing being devoured by a squid, that would honestly be the happiest moment of my life. Pretty wild, yeah. What other possibilities are out there? Like, it feels like if you're going to create a thousand of these things,

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 to devour their smaller pond mates. Nourished by this extra fuel, they develop quicker, leaving the pond before it can dry out. The spadefoot toad is far from the only animal to eat members of its own species as a normal part of its life cycle.

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 for me to devour this was in the mid-80s discovering film this way was like falling in love for me I was really smitten because it just reaffirmed so many things that I I thought I knew and we're reaffirmed you know so discovering

The vibrant world of...

 Now, it's Ani's moment of truth, the weighing of the heart. If his heart is heavier than the feather, weighed down by Ani's wrongdoings, it'll be devoured by the monstrous Ammit, part crocodile, part leopard, part hippopotamus,

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 Others love playing golf or devouring literature. One of my greatest pleasures in life is, I have to admit, a bit special. I cannot tell you how much I enjoy watching cities from the sky, from an airplane window.

What a driverless world...

 tonnes of sardines devoured in less than an hour there will be no easy meals on this island walruses are the largest seals in the world they weigh over a ton and are armed with tusks a metre long

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 the piranha's acute sense of smell helps them detect the meat almost immediately what fascinates charlie though is how frenzied they are at devouring it

Devour

To eat food quickly and in large amounts.

Often appears as...

To read or absorb something eagerly and quickly.

Often appears as...

To destroy, consume, or waste something completely.

Often appears as...

To listen or watch with great interest.

Often appears as...

Intense Hunger

Speedy Eating

Emotional Eating

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