Avarice: alternatives and connections

An eager, and sometimes an inordinate, desire for preferment, honor, superiority, power, or the attainment of something.

Greediness; strong appetite; eagerness; intenseness of desire; as, to eat with avidity.

Advantage; gain; gain by plunder; booty.

Greediness of appetite for flesh.

A scheme of equalizing the social conditions of life; specifically, a scheme which contemplates the abolition of inequalities in the p…

The act of seeking, or endeavoring to gain, what another is endeavoring to gain at the same time; common strife for the same objects;…

To win ower; to gain from a state of hostility; to gain the good will or favor of; to make friendly; to mollify; to propitiate; to app…

To gain or acquire by force; to take possession of by violent means; to gain dominion over; to subdue by physical means; to reduce; to…

To have or indulge inordinate desire.

To eat up with greediness; to consume ravenously; to feast upon like a wild beast or a glutton; to prey upon.

Greediness; voracity; ravenousness; rapacity.

To swallow with greediness or in large quantities; to devour.

Swallowed with greediness, or in large draughts.

Departing from an orbit or usual track; hence, deviating from the usual or due course; going beyond the appointed rules or established…

To gain, as the object of desire or effort; as, to find leisure; to find means.

To come off winner or victor in; to be successful in; to obtain by competition; as, to gain a battle; to gain a case at law; to gain a…

To procure; to obtain; to gain possession of; to acquire; to earn; to obtain as a price or reward; to come by; to win, by almost any m…

To swallow; especially, to swallow with greediness, or in large mouthfuls or quantities.