devouring

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Verb

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devouring

  1. present participle and gerund of devour

Noun

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devouring (plural devourings)

  1. The act by which something is devoured.
    • 1982, Frederick Asals, Flannery O'Connor, the Imagination of Extremity, page 189:
      But like all the other symbolic devourings in the novel, this one too brings its revelation.
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