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voracious 音标拼音: [vɔr'eʃəs]
a. 狼吞虎咽的,贪婪的 狼吞虎咽的,贪婪的 voracious adj 1: excessively greedy and grasping; " a rapacious divorcee on the prowl"; " ravening creditors"; " paying taxes to voracious governments" [ synonym: { rapacious}, { ravening}, { voracious}] 2: devouring or craving food in great quantities; " edacious vultures"; " a rapacious appetite"; " ravenous as wolves"; " voracious sharks" [ synonym: { edacious}, { esurient}, { rapacious}, { ravening}, { ravenous}, { voracious}, { wolfish}] Voracious \ Vo* ra" 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. -- { Vo* ra" cious* ly}, adv. -- { Vo* ra" cious* ness}, n. [ 1913 Webster] 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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