Word Meanings - TIGER-FOOTED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Hastening to devour; furious.

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• FURIOUS
  1. Transported with passion or fury; raging; violent; as, a furious animal. 2. Rushing with impetuosity; moving with violence; as, a furious stream; a furious wind or storm. Syn. -- Impetuous; vehement; boisterous; fierce; turbulent; tumultuous;
• HASTENER
  1. One who hastens. 2. That which hastens; especially, a stand or reflector used for confining the heat of the fire to meat while roasting before it.
• DEVOUR
  1. To eat up with greediness; to consume ravenously; to feast upon like a wild beast or a glutton; to prey upon. Some evil beast hath devoured him. Gen. xxxvii. 20. 2. To seize upon and destroy or appropriate greedily, selfishly, or wantonly; to
• HASTEN
  To press; to drive or urge forward; to push on; to precipitate; to accelerate the movement of; to expedite; to hurry. I would hasten my escape from the windy storm. Ps. lv. 8.
• DEVOURABLE
  That may be devoured.
• DEVOURER
  One who, or that which, devours.
• DEVOURINGLY
  In a devouring manner.
• SELF-DEVOURING
  Devouring one's self or itself. Danham.
• CHASTEN
  chastise; castus pure + agere to lead, drive. See Chaste, Act, and 1. To correct by punishment; to inflict pain upon the purpose of reclaiming; to discipline; as, to chasten a son with a rod. For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth. Heb. xii. 6.
• CHASTENER
  One who chastens.
• ENCHASTEN
  To chasten.
• CHASTENESS
  Freedom from all that is meretricious, gaundy, or affected; as, chasteness of design. (more info) 1. Chastity; purity.
• CHASTENED
  Corrected; disciplined; refined; purified; toned down. Sir. W. Scott. Of such a finished chastened purity. Tennyson.