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.
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Acquired.
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Acquired.
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Given to gluttony; eating to excess; indulging the appetite; voracious; as, a gluttonous age.
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Given to gluttony; eating to excess; indulging the appetite; voracious; as, a gluttonous age.
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The quality of being voracious; voraciousness.
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The quality of being voracious; voraciousness.
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Given to eating; voracious; devouring.
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Inclined to eat; hungry; voracious.
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Given to plunder; disposed or accustomed to seize by violence; seizing by force.
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Devouring with rapacious eagerness; furiously voracious; hungry even to rage; as, a ravenous wolf or vulture.
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Like a wolf; having the qualities or form of a wolf; as, a wolfish visage; wolfish designs.
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