In extended use. transitive. Chiefly with up: To swallow up, consume, absorb, take in (a person or thing). Obsolete.

transitive. To devour, consume (as a beast of prey); to prey upon; to feed destructively upon (crops, vegetation); transferred to ravage, devastate…

transferred. To devour, consume, destroy. Obsolete.

transitive. To consume. Cf. fornim, v.

transitive. To devour, gnaw; to eat up or into, corrode.

transitive. To gnaw, devour, consume.

figurative. To make away with, destroy, consume, cause to vanish (as if by devouring or absorption into itself). See also 10c.

Of inanimate agencies: To consume, destroy. Said esp. of fire, sword, pestilence, or other agencies which claim numerous victims.

transitive to swallow up.

transitive. To destroy, corrode, wear away; (of fire) to burn up, reduce to ashes.

To swallow up.

To send to the bottom, cause to be swallowed up or engulfed. Obsolete.

transitive. To swallow up, engulf, esp. in a body of water. Also with in. Frequently in passive. Also figurative. Obsolete.

to swallow up. figurative. To make away with or destroy completely; to cause to disappear utterly (as if by absorption). Cf. 4a.

transitive.

transitive. To reduce to ashes, burn to ashes, consume by fire.

(up-, prefix affix 3a affix 3b affix 3c.)

transitive. To set on fire in order to damage or destroy. Also: to consume or destroy by fire.

transitive. To consume gradually; to carry off.

transitive. To swallow up in an abyss, to engulf.

transitive. To cause to be eaten by worms; to devour, as a burrowing worm does. Chiefly passive, to be eaten by worms. Also figurative.

figurative. To consume by waste. Obsolete.

transferred and figurative. Chiefly to gulp down. To keep in or ‘stifle’ by a process analogous to swallowing. Also with in, back.

transferred. To engulf or bear down like a flood, storm, avalanche, etc.; hence, to involve in destruction or ruin. in material sense.