devourer
noun
a person or thing that devours.
devourers
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pluralof devourer.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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.
From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2024
Within hours the locusts are transformed from solitary plant eaters to synchronized, swarming cannibalistic devourers of their brethren.
From Salon ● May 30, 2021
He lives by devouring the devourers; he subsists for weeks and months on locusts alone, and also preserves a stock of this food dried, as we do herrings or pilchards, for future consumption.
From The Illustrated London Reading Book by Various
Watch the fruit on the wall trees, and keep off the devourers, of which there will be numberless kinds swarming about them during this month.
From The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families by Mary Eaton
And here we stand registered in the courts of parliament as devourers of the people!...
From History of the Rise of the Huguenots Vol. 1 by Henry Martyn Baird
