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vo‧ra‧cious/vəˈreɪʃəs, vɒ- $ vɔː-, və-/ adjective
[date : 1600-1700; Language : Latin; Origin : vorax, from vorare; ⇨ devour]
1. eating or wanting large quantities of food:
　 ▪ Pigs are voracious feeders.
　 ▪ Kids can have voracious appetites.

2. having an extremely strong desire to do or have a lot of something:
　 ▪ a voracious reader
　 ▪ Her appetite for information was voracious.

—voraciously adverb:
　 ▪ Anne has always read voraciously.

—voracity /-ˈræsəti, -ˈræsɪti/ noun [UNCOUNTABLE]

adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an avid/voracious reader (=someone who eagerly reads a lot of books)
▪ She was an avid reader of historical novels.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
NOUN
appetite
▪ The late James Currie had in common with all comedians a voracious appetite for new material.
▪ He has a voracious appetite for knowledge about what is happening around every corner in New York City.
▪ The socialists were not alone at the banquet of graft, but they had a particularly voracious appetite.
▪ A voracious appetite, omnivorous, suitable for a bear.
▪ Children have voracious appetites for authenticity, but in drama we should never intimidate them with factual information.
▪ Walburga once suppressed the voracious appetite of a child by having her consume three ears of grain.
▪ Joe, for example, had a voracious appetite.
reader
▪ Academic staff are voracious readers and inveterate talkers.
▪ He was a voracious reader with a compulsion to finish everything he started.
▪ A voracious reader, Vea is adamant about the pursuit of writing excellence.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a voracious reader
▪ Caterpillars are voracious leaf-eaters.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A voracious reader, Vea is adamant about the pursuit of writing excellence.
▪ He has a voracious appetite for knowledge about what is happening around every corner in New York City.
▪ It is a voracious blood-sucker and even 100-200 worms are sufficient to produce death in sheep within a few weeks of infection.
▪ It was a dorado or dolphin fish, a voracious predator which feeds mostly on flying fish.
▪ Thus a dragonfly and its larva are both voracious eaters of their fellow creatures.
▪ Walburga once suppressed the voracious appetite of a child by having her consume three ears of grain.