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voracious Adjective 1. eating or craving great quantities of food 2. very eager or insatiable in some activity: a voracious collector [Latin vorare to devour] voraciously adv
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voracious adjective 2. avid, prodigious, insatiable, uncontrolled, rapacious, unquenchable << OPPOSITE moderate How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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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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