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devourer

[di-vau-er-er]

noun

plural

devourers 
  1. a person or thing that devours.



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This realizes what Joan Didion describes in her 2000 New Yorker essay about the “unusual bonding” and “proprietary intimacy” Stewart creates with us — her people, her consumers, her devourers.

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When Tamira explains to Sam that the jar contains a monster — later explained to be the Pishach, "a flesh-eating devourer of souls" — Sam causes the vessel to break, and the demon is unleashed.

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In comic books, Galactus is known as the devourer of worlds.

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It was a sin punishable by having his heart fed to a horrible beast called the devourer.

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Within hours the locusts are transformed from solitary plant eaters to synchronized, swarming cannibalistic devourers of their brethren.

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