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Meaning of 'voracious' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Voracious [ a.]
- 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.

Meaning of 'voracious' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . voracious [ s]
Meaning (1):
- devouring or craving food in great quantities
Example in sentence:
  • a rapacious appetite;
  • edacious vultures;
  • ravenous as wolves;
  • voracious sharks
Meaning (2):
- excessively greedy and grasping
Example in sentence:
  • a rapacious divorcee on the prowl;
  • paying taxes to voracious governments;
  • ravening creditors

Nearby Words:

voracity voraginous vortex vortexes vortical vorticel vorticella vorticellae vorticellas vortices

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