devour vs inhale

devour

verb
  • To eat quickly, greedily, hungrily, or ravenously. 

  • To take in avidly with the intellect or with one's gaze. 

  • To rapidly destroy, engulf, or lay waste. 

  • To absorb or engross the mind fully, especially in a destructive manner. 

inhale

verb
  • To eat very quickly. 

  • To draw air or any form of gas (either in a pure form, or mixed with small particles in form of aerosols/smoke -sometimes stemming from a medicament) into the lungs, through the nose or mouth by action of the diaphragm. 

  • To draw air into the lungs, through the nose or mouth by action of the diaphragm. 

noun
  • An inhalation. 

How often have the words devour and inhale occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )