Verb (used with object) : Fire devoured the old museum. ,to devour the works of Freud. ,a mind devoured by fears.    From Dictionary.com. 

A ritual cannibalism, but one in which the devoured is a willing participant.    From Wordnik.com.  ["I'm praying for something that's worth drowning for..."] Reference

But fire and sword devoured them, they're no more.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fridthjof's Saga; a Norse romance] Reference

In our last war the sword devoured but five hundred a year: intemperance destroys two hundred a week.    From Wordnik.com.  [Select Temperance Tracts] Reference

Supposing he'd written 'ranted at' instead of 'devoured'?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fox Evil]

However she "devoured"'The Hobbit' and the entire 'Lord of the Rings' audially in just over a month when she was 9 years old.    From Wordnik.com.  [Propeller Most Popular Stories] Reference

A grievous swarm of flies (v. 24), flies of divers sorts, and such as devoured them, Ps. lxxviii.    From Wordnik.com.  [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume I (Genesis to Deuteronomy)] Reference

Off-road, we devoured rocks as if they were pebbles.    From Wordnik.com.  [At A Crossroads] Reference

Opponent's heart may be devoured for Warrior Strength.    From Wordnik.com.  [Doug Lieblich: Entertainment Job Listings for Those Stuck in the Recession] Reference

         Baby Nod grew and devoured my wonder book.    From Wordnik.com.  [Minnows] Reference

All the crops we depend on would have been devoured by insects.    From Wordnik.com.  [Spinning An Image] Reference

Some of these mashups have been welcomed and devoured be readers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jason Pinter: Eat Pray Naked Lunch And The Best Bad Literary Mashups] Reference

Newspapers devoured the list and featured the threat of legal action.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Last Dogs Go To War] Reference

The phobia rushed in and devoured her about a year after her husband died.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wedded Bliss] Reference

Each member's staff devoured the goodies -- and kept on working the phones.    From Wordnik.com.  [At War Within The Ranks] Reference

The 154-pound athlete devoured 501/2 hot dogs in 20 minutes last year to win.    From Wordnik.com.  [Perspectives] Reference

Parker roasted a chicken, some potatoes and carrots, and we devoured everything.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wild Dreams ofReality, 11] Reference

Bassett devoured everything from the poetry of Langston Hughes to the films of Bette Davis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Angela's Fire] Reference

An avid reader, Sila devoured American romance novels with a tinge of jealousy and confusion.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Kindest Cut] Reference

The message to celebrities is clear: if you say one thing and do another, prepare to be devoured.    From Wordnik.com.  [In The Time Of The Tabs] Reference

I devoured every word about the greatest sports stars in your interesting and emotion-packed issue.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Team Of The Century] Reference

But in the end it's not quite clear whether we've devoured a novel or a whole lot of movie popcorn.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Art Of The Dirty Deal] Reference

Now that the political system has devoured itself, it's only fitting that the press is doing the same.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Media Eat Their Own] Reference

Once begun, wars devoured everything, inflicting staggering material, psychological, and moral damage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Andrew Bacevich: The End of (Military) History? The United States, Israel, and the Failure of the Western Way of War] Reference

But within the vicious, Darwinian jungle of Enron, she had been quietly devoured by her nemesis Skilling.    From Wordnik.com.  [ENRON'S DIRTY LAUNDRY] Reference

There were those programs that rose up and devoured the Treasury and created as many problems as they solved.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cynicism Complaint] Reference

We found the food was mostly a French-Italian mix of pastas, seafood and pizza, and we greedily devoured it all.    From Wordnik.com.  [Coco Rocha: PHOTOS: My Honeymoon In Corsica] Reference

Having devoured Los Angeles, Orlando, the outskirts of Paris and Tokyo, he has now turned a hungry eye toward China.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Industrial Revolution?, More Violence, Making] Reference

He had driven with his wife to Rwanda to witness apparitions and devoured books on Our Lady of Fatima and of Lourdes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Priestess Of Death] Reference

She doesn't remember the octopus stew she devoured or the tiny frogs (fwogs) and crabs (cwabs) she chased on the beach.    From Wordnik.com.  [Corinne McDermott: Who Cares If They Won't Remember? Travel With Little Ones Anyway...] Reference

The reason: his body had already been devoured by wild dogs-a fate, claims Crossan, typical of crucified Roman criminals.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rethinking The Resurrection] Reference

We devoured it in no time, shoveling heavenly blobs into our mouths, the cream and milk chocolate melting on our tongues.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vitamins] Reference

They atoned by sending me the convention issue of NEWSWEEK, which I devoured on the banks of Lake Ocoee in eastern Tennessee.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Editor’s Desk] Reference

And once you buy, the Kindle does its neatest trick: it downloads the book and installs it in your library, ready to be devoured.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Future of Reading] Reference

Even the most passionate aficionado, who devoured every digital bit sent back by the Voyagers, will find this overview enriching.    From Wordnik.com.  [Review of "Voyager," a book about the space probes, by Stephen J. Pyne] Reference

Good news for chocolate lovers — that chocolaty treat you devoured after dinner last night is not the cause of your unwelcome breakouts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clearing up acne myths, and tips on preventing breakouts] Reference

To those of us who devoured his best-selling books on contemplative prayer, it seemed that Merton had all the important questions answered.    From Wordnik.com.  [Meditations Of A Man With An Uncaged Mind] Reference