be devoured by (something)

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be devoured by (something)

To be dominated or overwhelmed by a particular emotion. I was totally devoured by anger the last time I saw my enemy.

be devoured by something

be filled with a strong emotion that seems to control you: She was devoured by envy and hatred.

See also: devour, something

References in classic literature ?

I purposely refrained from referring to your affair, though I am devoured by curiosity.

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But, as I am devoured by the hounds, I would take comfort from the fact that most of my media colleagues would also become the new world's answer to Pedigree Chum.

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The most immediate cause of those outbreaks was, then as now, obvious and was captured in the records of artist-to-be Paul Gauguin, who was then a digger with the French Canal Company: "At night I am devoured by mosquitoes" (Harrison 1978).