devouring

The act by which something is devoured.

Noun

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

Forms

devourings

Related

omnivorousness voraciousness

Verb

  1. present participle and gerund of devour