Devoured means when someone eats hungrily and fills there stomach up with food and eat when you are hungry again and you always stuff food up your mouth.
Devoured means destroyed or eaten up greedily. It also refers to destruction caused by nature or a natural calamity.
It generally refers to eating immoderately and enjoy an activity avidly. It is spelt as devoured.
It is believed that monsters and predators used to devour mankind and other living beings, especially the likes of carnivorous creatures like dinosaurs and tyrannosaurs.
For example, "a forest devoured by flames of fire" means that the forest had been devastated by huge flames of fire and the forest, therefore, has become non-existent.
Its synonyms are consume, swallow, gulp, gobble, guzzle, wolf, down, go through, guttle, pig, raven, gorge, demolish, dispose and eaten up.
