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devouring
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective devouring has 1 sense
- devouring(s = adj.all) avid, esurient, greedy - (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"
THESAURUS
devouring
a hog for, acquisitive, all-devouring, appetite, avaricious, avid, bottomless, cannibalism, carnivorism, carnivority, carnivorousness, chewing, consumption, coveting, covetous, cropping, deglutition, devourment, dieting, dining, eating, epulation, esurient, feasting, feeding, gluttonous, gluttony, gobbling, grabby, grasping, grazing, greedy, herbivorism, herbivority, herbivorousness, hoggish, hunger, ingestion, insatiable, insatiate, licking, limitless, manducation, mastication, mercenary, messing, miserly, money-hungry, money-mad, munching, nibbling, nutrition, omnivorism, omnivorous, omnivorousness, omophagy, overgreedy, pantophagy, pasture, pasturing, pecking, piggish, quenchless, rapacious, ravening, ravenous, regalement, relishing, rumination, savoring, slakeless, sordid, swinish, tasting, unappeasable, unappeased, unquenchable, unsated, unsatisfied, unslakeable, unslaked, vegetarianism, venal, voracious, wolfing
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