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- adjective Not having been
devoured ;uneaten .
Etymologies
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Examples
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How the gaunt dogs that sneak about the miserable streets, come to be alive, and undevoured by the people, is one of the enigmas of the world.
Pictures from Italy 2007
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Perhaps this leaves room for the possibility of finding the true Father, tolerant and compassionate, whole and undevoured.
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When morning came, he woke undiscovered and undevoured.
Bridge of the Separator Turtledove, Harry 2005
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It would have been better to leave unburned, and to keep undevoured, the fuel and the food of life.
Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004
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Especially, why destroy him but leave his carcass undevoured?
Ship Of Destiny Hobb, Robin 2000
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The generation of the people of God in the world are at this day alive, undevoured, merely on the account of the intercession of the Lord Jesus.
Of Communion with God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost 1616-1683 1965
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He did not want to die in space -- wasted, forever undevoured.
Anything You Can Do ... Randall Garrett 1957
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The bones were not yet picked clean, although more than half of the carcass was eaten, and Jimmy wondered, as he rushed forward, that the voracious beasts had left a morsel undevoured.
Golden Days for Boys and Girls Volume XIII, No. 51: November 12, 1892 Various
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Otters are taken in an unbaited trap, for they reject every kind of bait, This trap must be placed near his landing place, which will be found by carefully examining the edges of rivers or ponds, either by his spraints, his seal, or the remains of fish (for in whatever place he eats his plunder he always leaves the tail or hinder parts of the fish undevoured).
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The ghoul not only did not conceal the undevoured portion of the corpse he had with him, but told his captors the whole story of his gruesome career.
The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II R. V. Russell
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