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Definition of: voracious
(vô·rā′shəs, vō-, və-) adjective
1. Eating with greediness; ravenous.
2. Greedy; rapacious.
3. Ready to swallow up or engulf.
4. Insatiable; immoderate. See synonyms under GREEDY. [<L vorax, -acis <vorare devour]
—vo·ra′cious·ly adverb
—vo·rac·i·ty (vô·ras′ə·tē, vō-, və-), vo·ra′cious·ness noun
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