rakusBahasa Indonesia

greedy, esurient, rapacious, ravening, voracious

Less common #16,050 of the corpus · 3.1 per million words · 13,103 occurrences

Verb

Overeat or eat immodestly, make a pig of oneself

English: gorge, ingurgitate, overindulge, glut, englut, stuff, engorge, overgorge, overeat, gormandize, gormandise, gourmandize, binge, pig out, satiate, scarf out

Bahasa: makan, menelan, muak, melahap, menyumbat, mengenyangkan, segah, mengasak

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Adjective

Devouring or craving food in great quantities

English: edacious, esurient, rapacious, ravening, ravenous, voracious, wolfish

Bahasa: pelahap

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Immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth

English: avaricious, covetous, grabby, grasping, greedy, prehensile

Bahasa: tamak, loba

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Excessively greedy and grasping

English: rapacious, ravening, voracious

Bahasa: serakah, tamak, lahap, gelojoh

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4 more adjective senses

(often followed by `for') ardently or excessively desirous

English: avid, devouring(a), esurient, greedy

Bahasa: ingin, berhasrat, tamak, loba

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Impossible to satisfy

English: insatiate, insatiable, unsatiable

Bahasa: tamak

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Wanting to eat or drink more than one can reasonably consume

English: greedy

Bahasa: lahap, gelojoh

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Word family of rakus

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