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Перевод: devour
[глагол] пожирать; есть с жадностью; лопать; поглощать; проглатывать; истреблять; уничтожать
Тезаурус:
- As a former reporter I devour newsprint with the appetite of a motorised refuse truck, but some of the garbage that has been written about myself and other women MPs deserves instant binning.
- "If your mind is pure, your enemies will be your friends, tigers and serpents will approach you but they will not devour you.
- Mona watched Sheila more devour than read the results.
- jealousy is not a comfortable bedfellow and if not restrained can devour its creator.
- The rowan (Sorbus aucuparia) is a great favourite of starlings, which provide an amusing display of gluttony as they devour the bright red autumn berries.
- So I drive back, pig out on a hi-cal breakfast, devour Sunday paper trash, wander home, hug the pillow you lay on, find a blonde hair or two, grin like an idiot, realise my hangover's gone, work like a trooper all afternoon, sip a little brandy come early evening, and raise my glass to your very good health.
- Come on inside - the midges will devour you if you don't smoke."
- Phoebe was not going to devour her in love and thus keep her safe from the great fangs and wraths of Fenna.
- That is what is wrong with narcissistic chat shows which create, then devour, media personalities who have not achieved anything in the real world; or politics coverage which concentrates on the intra-party power struggles rather than the world to which the party hopes to appeal.
- The snag is that small dace, bleak, and other small fish that feed at or near the surface, can devour much of this loose feed before it reaches bottom.
- Satan, visualized as a great fish seeing his enemy in such distress, swoops to devour but gets more than he bargains for.
- As the director of the Police Foundation, Barrie Irving (1984: 4) commented, "Unlike their American counterparts, the British police community, together with their administrators, do not devour large quantities of written material and if a research project does not produce results which can be acted upon no amount of careful editing and dissemination will make an impact."
- Cuckoo nestlings don't live inside robins or reed-warblers; they don't suck their blood or devour their tissues, yet we have no hesitation in labelling them as parasites.
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