interdevour

English

Etymology

Verb

interdevour (third-person singular simple present interdevours, present participle interdevouring, simple past and past participle interdevoured)

(rare) Of many people, creatures etc.: to devour each other.
- 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
  Epicurus said of the lawes that the worst were so necessary unto us, that without them men would enterdevour one another.
- 1987, Richard Preston, First Light:
  His prime suspect for cannibalism was a nightmarish object — a pack of nine galaxies in a feeding frenzy, interdevouring one another.

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