Word Meanings - TIGER-FOOTED - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Hastening to devour; furious.
Related words: (words related to TIGER-FOOTED)
- 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.