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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 :   [ gcide ]

  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]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) :   [ web1913 ]

  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.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 :   [ wn ]

  voracious
       adj 1: excessively greedy and grasping; "a rapacious divorcee on
              the prowl"; "ravening creditors"; "paying taxes to
              voracious governments" [syn: rapacious, ravening]
       2: devouring or craving food in great quantities; "edacious
          vultures"; "a rapacious appetite"; "ravenous as wolves";
          "voracious sharks" [syn: edacious, esurient, rapacious,
           ravening, ravenous, wolfish]

From Greek Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-el-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  voracious
     Αγγλικά a.
     1 αδηφάγος, λαίμαργος
     2 (μτφρ) που δεν σταματάει να συγκεντρώνει, να μαζεύει (διάφορα
  πράγματα, γνώσεις, κ.α.)

From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  voracious
     a.
     Wanting or devouring great quantities of food.

From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]

  voracious
     a.
     Wanting or devouring great quantities of food.

From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]

  voracious
     a.
     Wanting or devouring great quantities of food.

From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]

  voracious
     a.
     Wanting or devouring great quantities of food.

From Finnish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-fi-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  voracious
     Englanti a.
     ahnas, ahne

From English-Arabic FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.6.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ara ]

  Voracious /vɔːɹˈeɪʃəs/
  شره

From English-български език FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-bul ]

  voracious //vɔːˈɹeɪ.ʃəs// //vəˈɹeɪ.ʃəs// 
  1. ненаситен
  devouring great quantities of food
  2. лаком
  having a great appetite for anything

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  voracious /vɔːɹˈeɪʃəs/ 
  žravý

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  voracious /vɔːɹˈeɪʃəs/ 
  nenasytný

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  voracious /vɔːɹˈeɪʃəs/ 
  dychtivý

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  voracious /vɔːɹˈeɪʃəs/
  gefräßig, ausgehungert, heißhungrig 
     Synonym: ravenous
  

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  voracious /vɔːɹˈeɪʃəs/ 
  gierig 

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  voracious /vɔːɹˈeɪʃəs/ 
  unersättlich 

From English - Modern Greek XDXF/FreeDict dictionary ver. 0.1.1 :   [ freedict:eng-ell ]

  voracious /vɔːɹˈeɪʃəs/
  
  αχόρταγος, ακόρεστος, άπληστος

From English-suomi FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-fin ]

  voracious //vɔːˈɹeɪ.ʃəs// //vəˈɹeɪ.ʃəs// 
  1. ahne, ahnas
  devouring great quantities of food
  2. ahkera, innokas
  having a great appetite for anything

From English-Hindi FreeDict Dictionary ver. 1.6 :   [ freedict:eng-hin ]

  voracious /vɔːɹˈeɪʃəs/ 
  1. पेटू
        "He is a voracious eater"

From English-Hindi FreeDict Dictionary ver. 1.6 :   [ freedict:eng-hin ]

  Voracious /vɔːɹˈeɪʃəs/ 
  1. अत्युत्सुक
        "He seems to be a voracious reader"

From English-Croatian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.2 :   [ freedict:eng-hrv ]

  voracious /vɔːɹˈeɪʃəs/
  proždrljiv

From English-Hungarian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.1 :   [ freedict:eng-hun ]

  voracious /vɔːɹˈeɪʃəs/
  1. falánk
  2. telhetetlen
  3. mohó

From English-Bahasa Indonesia FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-ind ]

  voracious //vɔːˈɹeɪ.ʃəs// //vəˈɹeɪ.ʃəs// 
  voracious
  devouring great quantities of food

From English-日本語 (にほんご) FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-jpn ]

  voracious //vɔːˈɹeɪ.ʃəs// //vəˈɹeɪ.ʃəs// 
  1. 大食, 貪欲
  devouring great quantities of food
  2. 貪欲
  having a great appetite for anything

From English-Norsk FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-nor ]

  voracious //vɔːˈɹeɪ.ʃəs// //vəˈɹeɪ.ʃəs// 
  glupsk
  devouring great quantities of food

From English - Polish Piotrowski+Saloni/FreeDict dictionary ver. 0.2 :   [ freedict:eng-pol ]

  voracious /vəˈreɪʃəs/ 
    żarłoczny

From English-Svenska FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-swe ]

  voracious //vɔːˈɹeɪ.ʃəs// //vəˈɹeɪ.ʃəs// 
  1. glupsk, omättlig
  devouring great quantities of food
  2. omättlig
  having a great appetite for anything

From English-Turkish FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3 :   [ freedict:eng-tur ]

  voracious /vɔːɹˈeɪʃəs/
  1. doymaz, doymak bilmez, obur.voraciously oburcasına. voraciousness, voracity  oburluk.

From IPA:en_US :   [ IPA:en_US ]

  

/vɔˈɹeɪʃəs/

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :   [ moby-thesaurus ]

  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
  
  

From Stardic English-Chinese Dictionary :   [ stardic ]

  a. 狼吞虎咽的,贪婪的;

From XDICT the English-Chinese dictionary :   [ xdict ]

     a. 狼吞虎咽的,贪婪的

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