interdevour
Of many people, creatures etc.: to devour each other.
Verb
- Of many people, creatures etc.: to devour each other.
- Epicurus said of the lawes that the worst were so necessary unto us, that without them men would enterdevour one another. - 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II,...
- His prime suspect for cannibalism was a nightmarish object — a pack of nine galaxies in a feeding frenzy, interdevouring one another. - 1987, Richard Preston, First Light:
Origin
From inter- + devour.