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