devour
verb (used with object)
to swallow or eat up hungrily, voraciously, or ravenously.
had devoured
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past perfectof devour.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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As far back as his time in Atlanta, Snead had devoured books about Warren Buffett—usually on tape as he drove from school to school all over the South.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
The blaze had devoured an area nearly twice the size of Manhattan by Friday morning.
From Barron's ● Jul. 24, 2026
Mr. Malaviya told him he had devoured Atkinson’s 2,500-page trilogy on World War II. “He said to me, ‘You don’t need to convince me at all.’
From New York Times ● Jan. 30, 2024
Her way out was in the stories her mother had devoured and her great-grandmother had told — and the stories she began to make up.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2022
After the dog had devoured them and put his great shaggy head across her ankles or in her lap, she would tell him a story.
From "Bone Gap" by Laura Ruby
