to eat with every mouth; to devour excessively

Ate heartily; ate with great vigor. Figuratively: caused great harm.

("Aram from the east, and Philistines from the west, and they devoured Israel with every mouth—yet his anger has not turned away, and his hand is still outstretched"—Isaiah 9:11; also: "Ever since the price of apartments rose, from the day the gentiles set their eyes to devour Israel with every mouth, and there are many houses missing in the city"—Agnon, Only Yesterday, 151; and: "And with the voyage at sea, as soon as they approached the gates of Constantinople, they began 'to devour the east—as Menachem Gut said—with every mouth'"—D. Baron, The Exiles, 5)

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