1) to consume by eating, to eat up, devour
    1a) of birds
    1b) of a dragon
    1c) of a man eating up the little book
 2) metaph.
    2a) to devour i.e. squander, waste: substance
    2b) to devour i.e. forcibly appropriate: widows' property
    2c) to strip one of his goods
        1c1) to ruin (by the infliction of injuries)
    2d) by fire, to devour i.e. to utterly consume, destroy
    2e) of the consumption of the strength of body and mind by
        strong emotions