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Devouring vs. Voracious — What's the Difference?

Devouring vs. Voracious — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Devouring and Voracious

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Devouring

To eat up greedily.

Voracious

Wanting or devouring great quantities of food
A voracious appetite

Devouring

To destroy, consume, or waste
Flames devoured the structure in minutes.

Voracious

Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.

Devouring

To take in eagerly
Devour a novel.
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Voracious

Having or marked by a strong desire for an activity or pursuit
A voracious reader.

Devouring

To preoccupy or obsess in a harmful way
Was devoured by jealousy.

Voracious

Wanting or devouring great quantities of food.

Devouring

Present participle of devour

Voracious

Having a great appetite for anything.
A voracious reader

Devouring

The act by which something is devoured.

Voracious

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.

Devouring

(often followed by `for') ardently or excessively desirous;
Avid for adventure
An avid ambition to succeed
Fierce devouring affection
The esurient eyes of an avid curiosity
Greedy for fame

Voracious

Excessively greedy and grasping;
A rapacious divorcee on the prowl
Ravening creditors
Paying taxes to voracious governments

Voracious

Devouring or craving food in great quantities;
Edacious vultures
A rapacious appetite
Ravenous as wolves
Voracious sharks

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