devouring

English

Verb

devouring

1. present participle and gerund of devour

Noun

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.