Food and drink
Synonyms for devour
The synonym for devour recorded in this bank is gobble, in the sense "to eat something quickly and hungrily". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.
The synonym for devour
- gobbleverb, in the sense "to eat something quickly and hungrily"
One pair, read and signed off by a human before it shipped. The bank records a synonym per sense, so a second one appears here the day devour is audited in a second meaning.
to eat something quickly and hungrily
Watch him devour three burgers before anyone else finishes one.
The true synonym
gobble
Same sentence, swapped: Watch him gobble three burgers before anyone else finishes one.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for devour in the sentence quoted.
- sip
- garnish
- season
Where devour turns up in the game
devour is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 1, Foothills. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzle where devour is the trap
- savorverb, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is relish, in the sense "to enjoy a taste or smell slowly and fully", and devour is on the board beside it.
Play devour
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so devour reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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The ring widens as it goes, from food and drink at Foothills outward to the whole bank.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. devour carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.