vt to enjoy with avidity; to appropriate or take in eagerly by the senses.
2. devour ·vt to eat up with greediness; to consume ravenously; to feast upon like a wild beast or a glutton; to prey upon.
3. devour ·vt to seize upon and destroy or appropriate greedily, selfishly, or wantonly; to consume; to swallow up; to use up; to waste; to annihilate.