all-eating

adjective

Eating all; consuming everything.

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Meanings

adjectiveall-eating (not comparable)
  1. not comparableEating all; consuming everything.

    Then being ask'd where all thy beauty lies, / Where all the treasure of thy lusty days / To say, within thine own deep-sunken eyes, / Were an all-eating shame and thriftless praise.

    1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 2”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC
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