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Definition of all-devouring in English: all-devouringadjective 1Devouring everything. a plague of locusts, biblical in its all-devouring horror Example sentencesExamples - London bowed down before the all-devouring fire as before an idol.
- Milton represents the insatiable and all-devouring character of Death, by the image of ravenous hunger.
- The state as an abstract entity took on bodily form and was revealed, in the world wars of the 20th century, to be an all-devouring monster.
- The true Messiah, when he came, delivered man from the dominion of social compulsion, and from all-devouring time itself.
- In the late 1830s, the violence of the rhetorical attacks on the "over-grown and all-devouring capitalists" had sent a collective shiver of fear through the ranks of "the owners of property".
Synonyms eating a mixed diet, eating a varied diet, able to eat anything - 1.1 Completely filling one's mind and attention; all-consuming.
an all-devouring ambition for leadership Example sentencesExamples - He felt an all-devouring thirst.
- I've experienced two emotions that are equally impossible to describe: happiness to have called him my friend and the overwhelming, all-devouring sense of loss.
- Never did I experience such an all-devouring passion for a theme as on that occasion.
- If there is a criticism to be made of some of his earlier work it is that his all-devouring reading occasionally led to clogged expression.
- There is nothing worse or more tedious than those - professionals or amateurs - for whom archaeology is an all-devouring obsession.
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