devour vs starve

devour

verb
  • 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. 

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

starve

verb
  • To kill with cold; to (cause to) die from cold. 

  • To die because of lack of food or of not eating. 

  • To destroy, make capitulate or at least make suffer by deprivation, notably of food. 

  • To deteriorate for want of any essential thing. 

  • To be very hungry. 

  • To deprive of nourishment or of some vital component. 

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