voracious
[vaw-rey-shuh s, voh-, vuh-]
- craving or consuming large quantities of food: a voracious appetite.
- exceedingly eager or avid: voracious readers; a voracious collector.
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Contemporary Examples
The critics have something of a point: Israelis voraciously consume media that, for the most part, operates uninhibited.
He loved or loathed immediately, and he did both as voraciously as he smoked, spoke and drank.
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Over about 10 years, Mozart voraciously incorporated different styles and motifs and developed his own voice.
Historical Examples
At that period of his life a man becomes too voraciously constant.
The Short Works of George MeredithGeorge Meredith
It was a party that had never fed; and it was voraciously hungry.
The Life Of Abraham LincolnWard H. Lamon
In its youth the Parmesan is very soft and easy, and is voraciously devoured.
First and LastH. Belloc
Voraciously I watched her smooth face as she untied the thread.
Memoirs of a MidgetWalter de la Mare
She read rapidly, and, as clever children often do, voraciously.
Harriet MartineauFlorence Fenwick Miller
voracious
- devouring or craving food in great quantities
- very eager or unremitting in some activityvoracious reading
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Word Origin
C17: from Latin vorāx swallowing greedily, from vorāre to devour
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Word Origin and History for voraciously
voracious
adj.
1630s, formed as an adjectival form of voracity. Related: Voraciously.
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