Of a person or personal agent: To consume destructively, recklessly, or wantonly; to make away with, waste, destroy (substance, property or figurative…
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释义 | the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > destroy [verb (transitive)] > devour, engulf, or consume (of fire, water, etc.) > misery, God, death, etc. (of a person) (6) devoura1340 Of a person or personal agent: To consume destructively, recklessly, or wantonly; to make away with, waste, destroy (substance, property or figurative… gravea1340 To swallow up in or as in a grave. Obsolete. consumec1425 transitive. To kill or destroy (a person). Esp. in later use, of a disease. Also reflexive. whelm1553 transferred. To engulf or bear down like a flood, storm, avalanche, etc.; hence, to involve in destruction or ruin. in immaterial sense. engulf1597 figurative. combust1619 figurative. To consume or waste as fire does. Obsolete. |
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