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[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
voracious \vora"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. --
   vora"ciously, adv. -- vora"ciousness, n.
   1913 webster
see also:
devour vora"ciously vora"ciousness 
[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
voracious
     adj 1: excessively greedy and grasping; "a rapacious divorcee on
            the prowl"; "ravening creditors"; "paying taxes to
            voracious governments" syn: rapacious, ravening
     2: devouring or craving food in great quantities; "edacious
        vultures"; "a rapacious appetite"; "ravenous as wolves";
        "voracious sharks" syn: edacious, esurient, rapacious,
         ravening, ravenous, wolfish
see also:
rapacious ravening edacious esurient ravenous wolfish 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
94 moby thesaurus words for "voracious":
   apician, a hog for, acquisitive, all-devouring, ardent, avaricious,
   avid, bolting, bottomless, cormorant, coveting, covetous, cramming,
   crapulent, crapulous, desirous, devoted, devouring, dog-hungry,
   eager, earnest, edacious, empty, enormous, enthusiastic, esurient,
   famished, famishing, fasting, fervent, fervid, glutting,
   gluttonizing, gluttonous, gobbling, gorging, grabby, grasping,
   greedy, gulping, guttling, guzzling, half-famished, half-starved,
   hoggish, hungering, hungry, hyperphagic, insatiable, insatiate,
   intemperate, limitless, mercenary, miserly, money-hungry,
   money-mad, omnivorous, overgreedy, passionate, peckish, piggish,
   pinched with hunger, polyphagic, predacious, prodigious,
   quenchless, rapacious, ravening, ravenous, satiating, sating,
   sharp-set, slakeless, sordid, starved, starving, stuffing,
   surfeiting, swinish, thirsty, unappeasable, unappeased,
   uncontrollable, uncontrolled, unfilled, unquenchable, unsated,
   unsatisfied, unslakeable, unslaked, venal, wolfing, wolfish,
   zealous





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