All devour antonyms

verb devour

• create — To create something means to cause it to happen or exist.
• dislike — to regard with displeasure, antipathy, or aversion: I dislike working. I dislike oysters.
• hate — to dislike intensely or passionately; feel extreme aversion for or extreme hostility toward; detest: to hate the enemy; to hate bigotry.
• preserve — to keep alive or in existence; make lasting: to preserve our liberties as free citizens.
• abstain — If you abstain from something, usually something you want to do, you deliberately do not do it.
• nibble — to bite off small bits.
• build — If you build something, you make it by joining things together.
• save — to rescue from danger or possible harm, injury, or loss: to save someone from drowning.
• hold — to have or keep in the hand; keep fast; grasp: She held the purse in her right hand. He held the child's hand in his.
• keep — to hold or retain in one's possession; hold as one's own: If you like it, keep it. Keep the change.
• receive — to take into one's possession (something offered or delivered): to receive many gifts.
• open — not closed or barred at the time, as a doorway by a door, a window by a sash, or a gateway by a gate: to leave the windows open at night.
• pick — to cast (a shuttle).