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voracious

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1. voracious - Adjective

2. voracious - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

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.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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My only grudge against nature was that I could not turn my Lolita inside out and apply voracious lips to her young matrix, her unknown heart, her nacreous liver, the sea-grapes of her lungs, her comely twin kidneys. Vladimir Nabokov

In Hollywood there's a great openness, almost a voracious appetite for new people. In England there's a great suspicion of the new. In cultural terms, that can be a good thing, but when you're trying to break into the film industry, it's definitely a bad thing. Christopher Nolan

During the first quarter of the last century, seaside resorts became the fashion, even in those countries of Northern Europe within the minds of whose people the sea had hitherto held the role of the devil, the cold and voracious hereditary foe of humanity. Karen Blixen

I was taught a lot of Bible at home and had a voracious appetite for reading the Bible. Amy Grant

Once introduced into this world, life would never leave-there was no end to the explosive, consuming, voracious lust of long chain molecules to link and match and make of themselves yet more and more and again more. Gregory Benford

For a voracious beast pebbles in his feed. Portuguese Proverb

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