Word Meanings - SELF-DEVOURING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Devouring one's self or itself. Danham.

Related words: (words related to SELF-DEVOURING)

• DEVOUR
  1. To eat up with greediness; to consume ravenously; to feast upon like a wild beast or a glutton; to prey upon. Some evil beast hath devoured him. Gen. xxxvii. 20. 2. To seize upon and destroy or appropriate greedily, selfishly, or wantonly; to
• DEVOURABLE
  That may be devoured.
• DEVOURER
  One who, or that which, devours.
• ITSELF
  The neuter reciprocal pronoun of It; as, the thing is good in itself; it stands by itself. Borrowing of foreigners, in itself, makes not the kingdom rich or poor. Locke.
• DEVOURINGLY
  In a devouring manner.
• SELF-DEVOURING
  Devouring one's self or itself. Danham.