devorar
Portuguese, verb/de.voˈɾa(ʁ)/
devorar is spelled D-E-V-O-R-A-R (7 letters) and appears 1.3 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 28,135th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Devorar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to devour (to eat quickly, greedily, hungrily, or ravenously)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “destruir”.
What does devorar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to devour (to eat quickly, greedily, hungrily, or ravenously)
- 2
to devour (to take in avidly with the intellect or with one's gaze)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. destruir 2. consumir depressa 3. comer com sofreguidão
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of devorar
- devoro first-person present singular
- devorei first-person preterite singular
- devorado participle past
- devorares infinitive second-person singular
- devorarmos first-person infinitive plural
- devorardes infinitive plural second-person
- devorarem infinitive plural third-person
- devorando gerund
- devorados masculine participle past
- devorada feminine participle past
- devoradas feminine participle past
- devoras indicative present second-person
- devora indicative present singular
- devoramos first-person indicative plural
- devorais indicative plural present
- devoram indicative plural present
- devorava first-person imperfect indicative
- devoravas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce devorar?
- Brazil /de.voˈɾa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [de.voˈɾa(h)]
- /de.voˈɾa(ɾ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to devorar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is devorar in Portuguese?
devorar appears 1.3 times per million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).