devoured Definition

devour
verb devoured, devouring

1. To eat up something greedily.

Thesaurus: eat, consume, gulp, guzzle, stuff, gobble, bolt, gormandize, cram, polish off, wolf.
2. To completely destroy something.
3. To read (a book, etc) eagerly.
4. To look at something with obvious pleasure.
5. To be taken over totally.

Example: He was devoured by guilt
Form: be devoured (usually)

Derivative: devourer
noun

Etymology: 14c: from French devorer, from Latin devorare to gulp down.