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"Wanting or devouring great quantities of food."
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"sense": "devouring great quantities of food",
"word": "قِرْشَبّ"
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"sense": "devouring great quantities of food",
"word": "貪吃"
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"sense": "devouring great quantities of food",
"word": "狼吞虎嚥的"
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"roman": "lángtūnhǔyàn de",
"sense": "devouring great quantities of food",
"word": "狼吞虎咽的"
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"sense": "devouring great quantities of food",
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"sense": "devouring great quantities of food",
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"sense": "devouring great quantities of food",
"word": "umættelig"
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"sense": "devouring great quantities of food",
"word": "vraatzuchtig"
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"word": "manĝegi"
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"sense": "devouring great quantities of food",
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"sense": "devouring great quantities of food",
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"sense": "devouring great quantities of food",
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"sense": "devouring great quantities of food",
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"sense": "devouring great quantities of food",
"word": "voraz"
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"roman": "ɣormucela",
"sense": "devouring great quantities of food",
"word": "ღორმუცელა"
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"roman": "gaumaʒɣari",
"sense": "devouring great quantities of food",
"word": "გაუმაძღარი"
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"sense": "devouring great quantities of food",
"word": "ხარბი"
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"_dis1": "91 9",
"code": "de",
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"sense": "devouring great quantities of food",
"word": "gefräßig"
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"sense": "devouring great quantities of food",
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"sense": "devouring great quantities of food",
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"word": "αχόρταγος"
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"word": "βρωτικός"
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"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "devouring great quantities of food",
"word": "falánk"
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"code": "hu",
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"sense": "devouring great quantities of food",
"word": "telhetetlen"
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"lang": "Indonesian",
"sense": "devouring great quantities of food",
"word": "voracious"
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"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "devouring great quantities of food",
"word": "cíocrach"
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"sense": "devouring great quantities of food",
"word": "alpach"
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"sense": "devouring great quantities of food",
"word": "airceach"
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"sense": "devouring great quantities of food",
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"alt": "どんよくな",
"code": "ja",
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"roman": "don'yoku na",
"sense": "devouring great quantities of food",
"word": "貪欲な"
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"_dis1": "91 9",
"alt": "たいしょくの",
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"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "taishoku no",
"sense": "devouring great quantities of food",
"word": "大食の"
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"code": "la",
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"sense": "devouring great quantities of food",
"word": "vorāx"
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"sense": "devouring great quantities of food",
"word": "lurcinābundus"
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"_dis1": "91 9",
"code": "no",
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"sense": "devouring great quantities of food",
"word": "glupsk"
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"_dis1": "91 9",
"code": "ota",
"lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
"roman": "obur",
"sense": "devouring great quantities of food",
"word": "اوبور"
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"code": "ota",
"lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
"roman": "kursaksız",
"sense": "devouring great quantities of food",
"word": "قورساقسز"
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"code": "fa",
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"roman": "por-xor",
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"word": "پرخور"
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"_dis1": "91 9",
"code": "pl",
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"sense": "devouring great quantities of food",
"word": "żarłoczny"
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"sense": "devouring great quantities of food",
"word": "zachłanny"
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"_dis1": "91 9",
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"sense": "devouring great quantities of food",
"word": "voraz"
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "prožórlivyj",
"sense": "devouring great quantities of food",
"word": "прожо́рливый"
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"roman": "nenasýtnyj",
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"word": "ненасы́тный"
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"roman": "žádnyj",
"sense": "devouring great quantities of food",
"word": "жа́дный"
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"sense": "devouring great quantities of food",
"word": "भोजन"
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"sense": "devouring great quantities of food",
"word": "craosach"
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"code": "sh",
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"sense": "devouring great quantities of food",
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"word": "прождр̀љив"
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"sense": "devouring great quantities of food",
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"sense": "devouring great quantities of food",
"word": "insaciable"
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"sense": "devouring great quantities of food",
"word": "glupsk"
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"sense": "devouring great quantities of food",
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"text": "a voracious reader",
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"ref": "1922, Walter Lippmann, chapter 7, in Public Opinion",
"text": "If he carried chiefly his appetite, a zeal for tiled bathrooms, a conviction that the Pullman car is the acme of human comfort, and a belief that it is proper to tip waiters, taxicab drivers, and barbers, but under no circumstances station agents and ushers, then his Odyssey will be replete with good meals and bad meals, bathing adventures, compartment-train escapades, and voracious demands for money.",
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"ref": "2005 August 29, Nathan Thornburgh, “The Invasion of the Chinese Cyberspies”, in Time",
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"sense": "having a great appetite for anything",
"word": "лаком"
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"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "having a great appetite for anything",
"word": "貪心"
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"roman": "tānxīn",
"sense": "having a great appetite for anything",
"word": "贪心"
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"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "having a great appetite for anything",
"word": "貪婪"
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"roman": "tānlán",
"sense": "having a great appetite for anything",
"word": "贪婪"
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"sense": "having a great appetite for anything",
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"sense": "having a great appetite for anything",
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"sense": "having a great appetite for anything",
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"word": "ღორმუცელა"
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"roman": "gaumaʒɣari",
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"sense": "devouring great quantities of food",
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"code": "cmn",
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"sense": "devouring great quantities of food",
"word": "貪吃"
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"word": "狼吞虎嚥的"
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"sense": "devouring great quantities of food",
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"code": "ka",
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"sense": "devouring great quantities of food",
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"code": "ota",
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"sense": "devouring great quantities of food",
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"sense": "devouring great quantities of food",
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"sense": "devouring great quantities of food",
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"sense": "devouring great quantities of food",
"word": "craosach"
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"code": "sh",
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"sense": "devouring great quantities of food",
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"sense": "devouring great quantities of food",
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"code": "bg",
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"sense": "having a great appetite for anything",
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"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "having a great appetite for anything",
"word": "貪心"
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"code": "cmn",
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"roman": "tānxīn",
"sense": "having a great appetite for anything",
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{
"code": "cmn",
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"sense": "having a great appetite for anything",
"word": "貪婪"
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"code": "cmn",
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"word": "ღორმუცელა"
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"sense": "having a great appetite for anything",
"word": "telhetetlen"
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"sense": "having a great appetite for anything",
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"sense": "having a great appetite for anything",
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{
"code": "fa",
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"roman": "por-vala'",
"sense": "having a great appetite for anything",
"word": "پرولع"
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{
"code": "pl",
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"sense": "having a great appetite for anything",
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"code": "es",
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"sense": "having a great appetite for anything",
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"sense": "having a great appetite for anything",
"word": "omättlig"
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