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voracious

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vo·ra·cious  (vô-rshs, v-)
adj.
1. Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.
2. Having or marked by an insatiable appetite for an activity or pursuit; greedy: a voracious reader.

[From Latin vorx, vorc-, from vorre, to swallow, devour.]

vo·racious·ly adv.
vo·raci·ty (-rs-t), vo·racious·ness (-rshs-ns) n.
Synonyms: voracious, gluttonous, rapacious, ravenous
These adjectives mean having or marked by boundless greed: a voracious reader of history; a gluttonous consumer of fine foods; a rapacious acquirer of competing businesses; a politician ravenous for power.

voracious [vɒˈreɪʃəs]
adj
1. devouring or craving food in great quantities
2. very eager or unremitting in some activity voracious reading
[from Latin vorāx swallowing greedily, from vorāre to devour]
voraciously  adv
voracity  [vɒˈræsɪtɪ], voraciousness n
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.voracious - excessively greedy and grasping; "a rapacious divorcee on the prowl"; "ravening creditors"; "paying taxes to voracious governments"
acquisitive - eager to acquire and possess things especially material possessions or ideas; "an acquisitive mind"; "an acquisitive society in which the craving for material things seems never satisfied"
2.voracious - devouring or craving food in great quantitiesvoracious - devouring or craving food in great quantities; "edacious vultures"; "a rapacious appetite"; "ravenous as wolves"; "voracious sharks"
gluttonous - given to excess in consumption of especially food or drink; "over-fed women and their gluttonous husbands"; "a gluttonous debauch"; "a gluttonous appetite for food and praise and pleasure"

voracious
adjective
1. gluttonous, insatiable, ravenous, hungry, greedy, ravening, devouring For their size, stoats are voracious predators.
Translations
voracious [vəˈreɪʃəs] ADJ [appetite, person, animal] → voraz (fig) [reader] → insaciable, ávido
voracious [vəˈreɪʃəs] adj
[reader, collector] → avide
[eater, appetite] → vorace
voracious
adj persongefräßig; collectorbesessen; she is a voracious readersie verschlingt die Bücher geradezu; to be a voracious eaterUnmengen vertilgen; to have a voracious appetiteeinen Riesenappetit haben
voracious [vəˈreɪʃəs] (liter) adj (appetite) → smisurato/a; (reader) → avido/a


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He was fond of inviting them to tea; and, though vowing they never got a look in with him at the cakes and muffins, for it was the fashion to believe that his corpulence pointed to a voracious appetite, and his voracious appetite to tapeworms, they accepted his invitations with real pleasure.
The river horse, which lives only on grass and branches of trees, is satisfied with killing the men, but the crocodile being more voracious, feeds upon the carcases.
Secondly, that what is commonly called love, namely, the desire of satisfying a voracious appetite with a certain quantity of delicate white human flesh, is by no means that passion for which I here contend.
 
 
 
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