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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of or pertaining to a gulf or whirlpool; hence, devouring; swallowing.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective rare Pertaining to a gulf; full of gulfs; hence, devouring.

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  • adjective Pertaining to a gulf; full of gulfs; hence, devouring.

Etymologies

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Latin voraginosus, from vorago, "abyss".

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  • Pertaining to something which devours everything.

    May 14, 2008

  • (to gulfs, pits, chasms, which engulf everything)

    July 26, 2008