devouring
English edit
Verb edit
devouring
- present participle and gerund of devour
Noun edit
devouring (plural devourings)
- 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.