<OL TYPE="1"><LI>to consume by eating, to eat up, devour<OL TYPE="a"><LI>of birds<LI>of a dragon<LI>of a man eating up the little book</OL><LI>metaph.<OL TYPE="a"><LI>to devour i.e. squander, waste: substance<LI>to devour i.e. forcibly appropriate: widows' property<LI>to strip one of his goods<OL TYPE="1"><LI>to ruin (by the infliction of injuries)</OL><LI>by fire, to devour i.e. to utterly consume, destroy<LI>of the consumption of the strength of body and mind by strong emotions</OL></OL>