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voracious
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.
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