dévorer
French, verb/de.vɔ.ʁe/
dévorer is spelled D-É-V-O-R-E-R (7 letters) and appears 2.6 times per million words in written French, the 17,650th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Dévorer is a French verb meaning “to devour” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Manger avec voracité et rapidité”.
What does dévorer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to devour
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Manger avec voracité et rapidité. 2. Avaler goulûment ; manger avidement. 3. Manger entièrement sans rien laisser, surtout en parlant des animaux destructeurs. 4. Lire avec avidité, avec une extrême promptitude.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of dévorer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- dévorant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- dévoré participle past
- dévore first-person indicative present
- dévores indicative present second-person
- dévorons first-person indicative plural
- dévorez indicative plural present
- dévorent indicative plural present
- dévorais first-person imperfect indicative
- dévorait imperfect indicative singular
- dévorions first-person imperfect indicative
- dévoriez imperfect indicative plural
- dévoraient imperfect indicative plural
- dévorai first-person historic indicative
- dévoras historic indicative past
- dévora historic indicative past
- dévorâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce dévorer?
- /de.vɔ.ʁe/
- \de.vɔ.ʁe\
- [de.vɔ.ʁe]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to dévorer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is dévorer in French?
dévorer appears 2.6 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).