destroyed or wasted as if by eating; " forests devoured by flame"; " an inheritance eaten up by debt"

of Devour

With what silent eagerness the newspapers are devoured in war- time when the details of a battle appear! – Dr. Jolliffe's Boys by Lewis Hough

His sunken eyes devoured her as she ran toward him. – The Amazing Interlude by Mary Roberts Rinehart

The payment was refused, then the rats came, devoured and destroyed, stayed a night and left. – The Rat Racket by David Henry Keller

He devoured his food, poor fellow! – Balzac by Frederick Lawton

" Why, last time," he said, " she was going to be devoured by the Dragon with Seven Heads." – Europa's Fairy Book by Joseph Jacobs