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Eating with greediness or in very large quantities. Also: Very eager.

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Usage examples (37)
  • The children had voracious appetites after their long hike.
  • I think it comes from reading, and I was a-- what they call a voracious reader when I was a little boy.
  • I was reading quite early and I was voracious from the start.
  • '' Humanity, the oceans, cannot continue to sustain Japanese voracious sashimi appetite, ''
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