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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

[L.

vorax

-acis

, fr.

vorare

to devour; akin to Gr. [GREEK] meat, food, [GREEK] to devour, Skr.

gar

. Cf.

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

Noun.

Adj.

[L. vorax, from voro, to devour; Heb. to clear away, to consume; Gr. food.]

Greedy for eating; ravenous; very hungry; as a voracious man or appetite.

Rapacious; eager to devour; as voracious animals.

Ready to swallow up; as a voracious gulf or whirlpool.