voracious

အင်္ဂလိပ်

အသံထွက်

• IPA: /vɔːˈreɪ.ʃəs/, /vəˈreɪ.ʃəs/, SAMPA: /vO:"reI.S@s/, /v@"reI.S@s/

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နာမဝိသေသန

voracious (comparative more voracious, superlative most voracious)

1. အစားကြီးသော။ တော်ရုံနှင့် မဝနိုင်သော။
   • 1787, William Beckford, “introduction”, in The History of the Caliph Vathek^[၁]:

     Vathek piqued himself on being the greatest eater alive; but when the Indian dined with him, though the tables were thirty times covered, there was still want of more food for the voracious guest.

   • 1867, Charles Dickens, chapter 45, Oliver Twist^[၂]:

     The old man was up, betimes, next morning, and waited impatiently for the appearance of his new associate, who after a delay that seemed interminable, at length presented himself, and commenced a voracious assault on the breakfast.

2. အာသာ၊ လောဘကြီးသော။ မဝနိုင်အောင် ဖြစ်သော။
   • 2005, Nathan Thornburgh, "The Invasion of the Chinese Cyberspies," Time, 29 Aug.:

     Methodical and voracious, these hackers wanted all the files they could find.