English words for 'The act by which something is devoured.'
Closest matches for "The act by which something is devoured." are ranked by semantic fit across dictionary definitions.
Search results
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.