Palabras en English para 'The act by which something is devoured.'
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verb
- To devour; to eat up
- (figuratively) To defeat, refute, discredit, or consume utterly (as a theory, belief or opponent).
- (literally) To destroy (buildings, etc.), especially in a planned or intentional fashion.
- ruin or destroy
- eat up completely, as with great appetite
- defeat soundly and humiliatingly
- destroy completely
noun
- the act of consuming something
- The act of consuming or destroying.
- (economics) the utilization of economic goods to satisfy needs or in manufacturing
- involving the lungs with progressive wasting of the body
- the process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating)
- The act of eating, drinking or using.
- The amount consumed.
- (pathology) The wasting away of the human body through disease.
noun
- the act of consuming food
- the act of supplying food and nourishment
- (uncountable, usually said of animals) The act or process of eating.
- (countable) An instance or session of giving food.
- (uncountable) The act or process of giving food.
- (countable, usually said of animals) An instance or session of eating.
- (uncountable) The loading of material into a machine that will process it.
verb
noun
- the act of consuming another individual of the same species as food
- (marketing) a reduction in sales volume, sales revenue, or market share of one product when the same company introduces a new product
- the practice of removing parts or subsystems necessary for repair from another similar device
- adapting, borrowing or stealing plots, characters, themes or ideas from one story for use in another or from one medium to another
noun
verb
noun
- The act of eating another of one's own species.
- the practice of eating the flesh of your own kind
- (figurative) An act in which one thing consumes or takes over another of the same kind.
- (linguistics) In speech, the occurrence of one word eliding part or all of the next word, because the syllables are the same.
verb
- To take into the mouth; to seize or grind with the mouth or teeth; to chew; to devour.
- (transitive) To speak; to utter.
- (sheep husbandry) To examine the teeth of.
- To exit at a mouth (such as a river mouth)
- To form a mouth or opening in.
- (transitive) To pick up or handle with the lips or mouth, but not chew or swallow.
- To form or cleanse with the mouth; to lick, as a bear licks her cub.
- (ambitransitive) To utter with a voice that is overly loud or swelling.
- (transitive) To represent (words or sounds) by making the actions of speech, but silently, without producing sound; to frame.
- (figurative) Ellipsis of mouth the words; to speak insincerely.
- (transitive, intransitive) To move the mouth, with or without sound; to form (air or words) with the mouth, with or without sound.
- To carry in the mouth.
- express in speech
- articulate silently; form words with the lips only
- touch with the mouth
noun
- (anatomy) The front opening of a creature through which food is ingested.
- (slang) A loud or overly talkative person.
- (slang) A gossip.
- An outlet, aperture or orifice.
- (saddlery) The crosspiece of a bridle bit, which enters the mouth of an animal.
- The end of a river out of which water flows into a sea or other large body of water; or the end of a tributary out of which water flows into a larger river.
- the opening of a jar or bottle
- an opening that resembles a mouth (as of a cave or a gorge)
- a person conceived as a consumer of food
- the externally visible part of the oral cavity on the face and the system of organs surrounding the opening
- a spokesperson (as a lawyer)
- the opening through which food is taken in and vocalizations emerge
- the point where a stream issues into a larger body of water
- an impudent or insolent rejoinder
noun
- a person who eats human flesh
- A cannibal; a human that eats other humans.
- large aggressive shark widespread in warm seas; known to attack humans
- (by extension, slang) A seductive dangerous woman, often readily taking and discarding male romantic partners.
- A carnivorous plant large enough to consume a human; a man-eating plant.
- An animal that attacks and kills humans for food, such as certain tigers or sharks; any animal that consumes human flesh.
noun
- That which is or may be seized by animals to be devoured.
- The victim of a disease.
- A living thing, usually an animal, that is eaten by another living thing.
- A person or thing given up as a victim.
- animal hunted or caught for food
- a person who is the aim of an attack (especially a victim of ridicule or exploitation) by some hostile person or influence
verb
adj
- devouring or craving food in great quantities
- living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey
- excessively greedy and grasping
- Given to taking by force or plundering; aggressively greedy.
- (of an animal, usually a bird) Subsisting off live prey.
- (also figurative) Voracious; avaricious.
verb
noun
- (countable) Canis lupus; the largest wild member of the canine subfamily.
- (figurative) Any very ravenous, rapacious, or destructive person or thing; especially, want; starvation.
- A man who makes amorous advances to many women.
- (music) A wolf tone or wolf note.
- Any of several related canines that resemble Canis lupus in appearance, especially those of the genus Canis.
- A white worm which infests granaries, the larva of Nemapogon granella, a tineid moth.
- A wolf spider.
- One of the destructive, and usually hairy, larvae of several species of beetles and grain moths.
- A willying machine, to cleanse wool or willow.
- a man who is aggressive in making amorous advances to women
- any of various predatory carnivorous canine mammals of North America and Eurasia that usually hunt in packs
- a cruelly rapacious person
noun
- An act of gorging.
- (heraldry, usually in the plural) A whirlpool used as a heraldic charge.
- (US) A choking or filling of a channel or passage by an obstruction; the obstruction itself.
- (geography) A deep, narrow passage with steep, rocky sides, particularly one with a stream running through it; a ravine.
- (botany) The throat of a flower.
- (architecture, military, fortification) The rearward side of an outwork, a bastion, or a fort, often open, or not protected against artillery; a narrow entry passage into the outwork of an enclosed fortification.
- (mechanical engineering) The groove of a pulley.
- (fishing) A primitive device used instead of a hook to catch fish, consisting of an object that is easy to swallow but difficult to eject or loosen, such as a piece of bone or stone pointed at each end and attached in the middle to a line.
- (architecture) A concave moulding; a cavetto.
- Food that has been taken into the gullet or the stomach, particularly if it is regurgitated or vomited out.
- the passage between the pharynx and the stomach
- a deep ravine (usually with a river running through it)
- a narrow pass (especially one between mountains)
adj
verb
- (transitive) To fill up to the throat; to glut, to satiate.
- (transitive) To fill up (an organ, a vein, etc.); to block up or obstruct; (US, specifically) of ice: to choke or fill a channel or passage, causing an obstruction.
- (intransitive, reflexive) To stuff the gorge or gullet with food; to eat greedily and in large quantities. [with on]
- (transitive) To swallow, especially with greediness, or in large mouthfuls or quantities.
- overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself
noun
- One who consumes (destroys) the act or possibility of consumption.
- One who consumes or seeks out aspects of consumerism; a consumer of the experience of shopping and advertising (as opposed to the products bought).
- One who actively shapes the products that they purchase.
- A person, system, or organization that purchases something on behalf of a group of consumers.
noun
noun
- the act of swallowing
- any liquid suitable for drinking
- a single serving of a beverage
- any large deep body of water
- the act of drinking alcoholic beverages to excess
- Alcoholic beverages in general.
- A type of beverage (usually mixed).
- A standard drink.
- (informal) Amount.
- (uncountable) Drinks in general; something to drink.
- A (served) alcoholic beverage.
- The action of drinking, especially with the verbs take or have.
- A beverage.
- (Australia, figurative) A downpour; a cloudburst; a rainstorm; a deluge; a lot of rain.
- (colloquial, with the) Any body of water.
verb
- consume alcohol
- be fascinated or spell-bound by; pay close attention to
- propose a toast to
- drink excessive amounts of alcohol; be an alcoholic
- take in liquids
- (transitive) To take in; to receive within one, through the senses; to inhale; to hear; to see.
- (intransitive) To consume alcoholic beverages.
- (ambitransitive) To consume (a liquid) through the mouth.
- (transitive, metonymic) To consume the liquid contained within (a bottle, glass, etc.).
- Used in phrasal verbs: drink down, drink in, drink off, drink out, drink to, drink up.
- (transitive) To take in (a liquid), in any manner; to suck up; to absorb; to imbibe.
noun
- the act of swallowing
- small long-winged songbird noted for swift graceful flight and the regularity of its migrations
- a small amount of liquid food
- A small, migratory bird of the Hirundinidae family with long, pointed, moon-shaped wings and a forked tail which feeds on the wing by catching insects.
- (Nigeria) Any of various carbohydrate-based dishes that are swallowed without much chewing, commonly paired and eaten with various types of soup.
- (nautical) The opening in a pulley block between the sheave and shell through which the rope passes.
- The amount swallowed in one gulp; the act of swallowing.
verb
- tolerate or accommodate oneself to
- pass through the esophagus as part of eating or drinking
- engulf and destroy
- keep from expressing
- enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing
- take back what one has said
- utter unclearly
- believe or accept without questioning or challenge
- (intransitive) To engross; to appropriate; usually with up.
- (transitive) To put up with; to bear patiently or without retaliation.
- (transitive) To take (something) in so that it disappears; to consume, absorb.
- (transitive) To retract; to recant.
- (intransitive) To take food down into the stomach; to make the muscular contractions of the oesophagus to achieve this, often taken as a sign of nervousness or strong emotion.
- (transitive) To accept easily or without questions; to believe, accept.
- (transitive) To cause (food, drink etc.) to pass from the mouth into the stomach; to take into the stomach through the throat.
verb
- (transitive) To consume; to wear away; to prey upon; to impair.
- (transitive) To eat away bit by bit; to wear away or diminish by gradually separating or destroying small particles of, as by action of a strong acid or a caustic alkali.
- (intransitive) To have corrosive action; to be subject to corrosion.
- cause to deteriorate due to the action of water, air, or an acid
- become destroyed by water, air, or a corrosive such as an acid
noun
- the act of consuming something
- The act of consuming or destroying.
- (economics) the utilization of economic goods to satisfy needs or in manufacturing
- involving the lungs with progressive wasting of the body
- the process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating)
- The act of eating, drinking or using.
- The amount consumed.
- (pathology) The wasting away of the human body through disease.
noun
- the act of consuming food
- the act of supplying food and nourishment
- (uncountable, usually said of animals) The act or process of eating.
- (countable) An instance or session of giving food.
- (uncountable) The act or process of giving food.
- (countable, usually said of animals) An instance or session of eating.
- (uncountable) The loading of material into a machine that will process it.
verb
noun
- the act of consuming another individual of the same species as food
- (marketing) a reduction in sales volume, sales revenue, or market share of one product when the same company introduces a new product
- the practice of removing parts or subsystems necessary for repair from another similar device
- adapting, borrowing or stealing plots, characters, themes or ideas from one story for use in another or from one medium to another
noun
verb
noun
- The act of eating another of one's own species.
- the practice of eating the flesh of your own kind
- (figurative) An act in which one thing consumes or takes over another of the same kind.
- (linguistics) In speech, the occurrence of one word eliding part or all of the next word, because the syllables are the same.
noun
- a person who eats human flesh
- A cannibal; a human that eats other humans.
- large aggressive shark widespread in warm seas; known to attack humans
- (by extension, slang) A seductive dangerous woman, often readily taking and discarding male romantic partners.
- A carnivorous plant large enough to consume a human; a man-eating plant.
- An animal that attacks and kills humans for food, such as certain tigers or sharks; any animal that consumes human flesh.
noun
- That which is or may be seized by animals to be devoured.
- The victim of a disease.
- A living thing, usually an animal, that is eaten by another living thing.
- A person or thing given up as a victim.
- animal hunted or caught for food
- a person who is the aim of an attack (especially a victim of ridicule or exploitation) by some hostile person or influence
verb
noun
- An act of gorging.
- (heraldry, usually in the plural) A whirlpool used as a heraldic charge.
- (US) A choking or filling of a channel or passage by an obstruction; the obstruction itself.
- (geography) A deep, narrow passage with steep, rocky sides, particularly one with a stream running through it; a ravine.
- (botany) The throat of a flower.
- (architecture, military, fortification) The rearward side of an outwork, a bastion, or a fort, often open, or not protected against artillery; a narrow entry passage into the outwork of an enclosed fortification.
- (mechanical engineering) The groove of a pulley.
- (fishing) A primitive device used instead of a hook to catch fish, consisting of an object that is easy to swallow but difficult to eject or loosen, such as a piece of bone or stone pointed at each end and attached in the middle to a line.
- (architecture) A concave moulding; a cavetto.
- Food that has been taken into the gullet or the stomach, particularly if it is regurgitated or vomited out.
- the passage between the pharynx and the stomach
- a deep ravine (usually with a river running through it)
- a narrow pass (especially one between mountains)
adj
verb
- (transitive) To fill up to the throat; to glut, to satiate.
- (transitive) To fill up (an organ, a vein, etc.); to block up or obstruct; (US, specifically) of ice: to choke or fill a channel or passage, causing an obstruction.
- (intransitive, reflexive) To stuff the gorge or gullet with food; to eat greedily and in large quantities. [with on]
- (transitive) To swallow, especially with greediness, or in large mouthfuls or quantities.
- overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself
noun
- One who consumes (destroys) the act or possibility of consumption.
- One who consumes or seeks out aspects of consumerism; a consumer of the experience of shopping and advertising (as opposed to the products bought).
- One who actively shapes the products that they purchase.
- A person, system, or organization that purchases something on behalf of a group of consumers.
noun
noun
- the act of swallowing
- any liquid suitable for drinking
- a single serving of a beverage
- any large deep body of water
- the act of drinking alcoholic beverages to excess
- Alcoholic beverages in general.
- A type of beverage (usually mixed).
- A standard drink.
- (informal) Amount.
- (uncountable) Drinks in general; something to drink.
- A (served) alcoholic beverage.
- The action of drinking, especially with the verbs take or have.
- A beverage.
- (Australia, figurative) A downpour; a cloudburst; a rainstorm; a deluge; a lot of rain.
- (colloquial, with the) Any body of water.
verb
- consume alcohol
- be fascinated or spell-bound by; pay close attention to
- propose a toast to
- drink excessive amounts of alcohol; be an alcoholic
- take in liquids
- (transitive) To take in; to receive within one, through the senses; to inhale; to hear; to see.
- (intransitive) To consume alcoholic beverages.
- (ambitransitive) To consume (a liquid) through the mouth.
- (transitive, metonymic) To consume the liquid contained within (a bottle, glass, etc.).
- Used in phrasal verbs: drink down, drink in, drink off, drink out, drink to, drink up.
- (transitive) To take in (a liquid), in any manner; to suck up; to absorb; to imbibe.
noun
- the act of swallowing
- small long-winged songbird noted for swift graceful flight and the regularity of its migrations
- a small amount of liquid food
- A small, migratory bird of the Hirundinidae family with long, pointed, moon-shaped wings and a forked tail which feeds on the wing by catching insects.
- (Nigeria) Any of various carbohydrate-based dishes that are swallowed without much chewing, commonly paired and eaten with various types of soup.
- (nautical) The opening in a pulley block between the sheave and shell through which the rope passes.
- The amount swallowed in one gulp; the act of swallowing.
verb
- tolerate or accommodate oneself to
- pass through the esophagus as part of eating or drinking
- engulf and destroy
- keep from expressing
- enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing
- take back what one has said
- utter unclearly
- believe or accept without questioning or challenge
- (intransitive) To engross; to appropriate; usually with up.
- (transitive) To put up with; to bear patiently or without retaliation.
- (transitive) To take (something) in so that it disappears; to consume, absorb.
- (transitive) To retract; to recant.
- (intransitive) To take food down into the stomach; to make the muscular contractions of the oesophagus to achieve this, often taken as a sign of nervousness or strong emotion.
- (transitive) To accept easily or without questions; to believe, accept.
- (transitive) To cause (food, drink etc.) to pass from the mouth into the stomach; to take into the stomach through the throat.
verb
- To devour; to eat up
- (figuratively) To defeat, refute, discredit, or consume utterly (as a theory, belief or opponent).
- (literally) To destroy (buildings, etc.), especially in a planned or intentional fashion.
- ruin or destroy
- eat up completely, as with great appetite
- defeat soundly and humiliatingly
- destroy completely
verb
- To take into the mouth; to seize or grind with the mouth or teeth; to chew; to devour.
- (transitive) To speak; to utter.
- (sheep husbandry) To examine the teeth of.
- To exit at a mouth (such as a river mouth)
- To form a mouth or opening in.
- (transitive) To pick up or handle with the lips or mouth, but not chew or swallow.
- To form or cleanse with the mouth; to lick, as a bear licks her cub.
- (ambitransitive) To utter with a voice that is overly loud or swelling.
- (transitive) To represent (words or sounds) by making the actions of speech, but silently, without producing sound; to frame.
- (figurative) Ellipsis of mouth the words; to speak insincerely.
- (transitive, intransitive) To move the mouth, with or without sound; to form (air or words) with the mouth, with or without sound.
- To carry in the mouth.
- express in speech
- articulate silently; form words with the lips only
- touch with the mouth
noun
- (anatomy) The front opening of a creature through which food is ingested.
- (slang) A loud or overly talkative person.
- (slang) A gossip.
- An outlet, aperture or orifice.
- (saddlery) The crosspiece of a bridle bit, which enters the mouth of an animal.
- The end of a river out of which water flows into a sea or other large body of water; or the end of a tributary out of which water flows into a larger river.
- the opening of a jar or bottle
- an opening that resembles a mouth (as of a cave or a gorge)
- a person conceived as a consumer of food
- the externally visible part of the oral cavity on the face and the system of organs surrounding the opening
- a spokesperson (as a lawyer)
- the opening through which food is taken in and vocalizations emerge
- the point where a stream issues into a larger body of water
- an impudent or insolent rejoinder
verb
noun
- (countable) Canis lupus; the largest wild member of the canine subfamily.
- (figurative) Any very ravenous, rapacious, or destructive person or thing; especially, want; starvation.
- A man who makes amorous advances to many women.
- (music) A wolf tone or wolf note.
- Any of several related canines that resemble Canis lupus in appearance, especially those of the genus Canis.
- A white worm which infests granaries, the larva of Nemapogon granella, a tineid moth.
- A wolf spider.
- One of the destructive, and usually hairy, larvae of several species of beetles and grain moths.
- A willying machine, to cleanse wool or willow.
- a man who is aggressive in making amorous advances to women
- any of various predatory carnivorous canine mammals of North America and Eurasia that usually hunt in packs
- a cruelly rapacious person
verb
- (transitive) To consume; to wear away; to prey upon; to impair.
- (transitive) To eat away bit by bit; to wear away or diminish by gradually separating or destroying small particles of, as by action of a strong acid or a caustic alkali.
- (intransitive) To have corrosive action; to be subject to corrosion.
- cause to deteriorate due to the action of water, air, or an acid
- become destroyed by water, air, or a corrosive such as an acid
adj
- devouring or craving food in great quantities
- living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey
- excessively greedy and grasping
- Given to taking by force or plundering; aggressively greedy.
- (of an animal, usually a bird) Subsisting off live prey.
- (also figurative) Voracious; avaricious.