a plague of locusts, biblical in its all-devouring horror
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London bowed down before the all-devouring fire as before an idol.
Milton represents the insatiable and all-devouring character of Death, by the image of ravenous hunger.
The state as an abstract entity took on bodily form and was revealed, in the world wars of the 20th century, to be an all-devouring monster.
The true Messiah, when he came, delivered man from the dominion of social compulsion, and from all-devouring time itself.
In the late 1830s, the violence of the rhetorical attacks on the "over-grown and all-devouring capitalists" had sent a collective shiver of fear through the ranks of "the owners of property".
Synonyms
eating a mixed diet, eating a varied diet, able to eat anything
1.1Completely filling one's mind and attention; all-consuming.
an all-devouring ambition for leadership
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He felt an all-devouring thirst.
I've experienced two emotions that are equally impossible to describe: happiness to have called him my friend and the overwhelming, all-devouring sense of loss.
Never did I experience such an all-devouring passion for a theme as on that occasion.
If there is a criticism to be made of some of his earlier work it is that his all-devouring reading occasionally led to clogged expression.
There is nothing worse or more tedious than those - professionals or amateurs - for whom archaeology is an all-devouring obsession.