About The Word Ravening
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Ravening
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What's The Definition Of Ravening?
[adj] devouring or craving food in great quantities; "edacious vultures"; "a rapacious appetite"; "ravenous as wolves"; "voracious sharks"
[adj] excessively greedy and grasping; "a rapacious divorcee on the prowl"; "ravening creditors"; "paying taxes to voracious governments" [adj] living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey; "a predatory bird"; "the rapacious wolf"; "raptorial birds"; "ravening wolves"; "a vulturine taste for offal" Synonyms | Synonyms for Ravening: acquisitive | aggressive | edacious | esurient | gluttonous | predatory | rapacious | raptorial | ravenous | voracious | vulturine | vulturous | wolfish Related Terms | Find terms related to Ravening: See Also | Ravening In Webster's Dictionary \Rav"en*ing\, n.
Eagerness for plunder; rapacity; extortion. --Luke xi. 39.
\Rav"en*ing\, a. Greedily devouring; rapacious; as, ravening wolves. -- {Rav"en*ing*ly}, adv. |
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