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voracious (adj.)
1.devouring or craving food in great quantities"edacious vultures" "a rapacious appetite" "ravenous as wolves" "voracious sharks"
2.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"
3.excessively greedy and grasping"a rapacious divorcee on the prowl" "ravening creditors" "paying taxes to voracious governments"
4.impossible to satisfy"an insatiate appetite" "an insatiable demand for old buildings to restore" "his passion for work was unsatiable"
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Merriam Webster
VoraciousVo*ra"cious (?), a. [L. vorax, -acis, fr. vorare to devour; akin to Gr. � meat, food, � to devour, Skr. gar. Cf. Devour.] Greedy in eating; very hungry; eager to devour or swallow; ravenous; gluttonous; edacious; rapacious; as, a voracious man or appetite; a voracious gulf or whirlpool. Dampier. -- Vo*ra"cious*ly, adv. -- Vo*ra"cious*ness, n.
voracious (adj.)
devouring, edacious, esurient, gluttonous, greedy, hungry, insatiable, omnivorous, rapacious, ravening, ravenous, starved, unsatiable, wolfish, insatiate (literary)
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voracious (adj.)
↘ hungriness, insatiability, insatiableness, longing, voraciously, yearning ≠ abstemious, full, satiate, satiated, satisfied, subdued
voracious (adj.)
gluttonous, voracious[Similaire]
voracious (adj.)
qui a faim (fr)[Classe]
voracious (adj.)
acquisitive[Similaire]
voracious (adj.)
qui ne peut être satisfait (fr)[Classe]
désir (fr)[DomaineCollocation]
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