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VORACIOUS

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• VORACIOUS (adjective)
The adjective VORACIOUS has 2 senses:

1. excessively greedy and grasping
2. devouring or craving food in great quantities

Familiarity information: VORACIOUS used as an adjective is rare.

• VORACIOUS (adjective)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Excessively greedy and grasping

Synonyms:

voracious; rapacious; ravening

Context examples:

a rapacious divorcee on the prowl / ravening creditors / paying taxes to voracious governments

Similar:

acquisitive (eager to acquire and possess things especially material possessions or ideas)

Sense 2

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Meaning:

Devouring or craving food in great quantities

Synonyms:

edacious; wolfish; voracious; ravenous; ravening; rapacious; esurient

Context examples:

edacious vultures / a rapacious appetite / ravenous as wolves / voracious sharks

Similar:

gluttonous (given to excess in consumption of especially food or drink)

"Fresh pork and new wine kill a man before his time."
(English proverb)
"Do not hide like a fly under the tail of a horse."
(Albanian proverb)
"When you are dead, your sister's tears will dry as time goes on, your widow's tears will cease in another's arms, but your mother will mourn you until she dies."
(Arabic proverb)
"It's not only cooks that wear long knives."
(Dutch proverb)

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