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UK
/ɹˈævənɪŋ/
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ADJECTIVE
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devouring or craving food in great quantities
a rapacious appetite
ravenous as wolves
voracious sharks
edacious vultures -
living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey
a predatory bird
raptorial birds
a vulturine taste for offal
the rapacious wolf
ravening wolves -
excessively greedy and grasping
ravening creditors
a rapacious divorcee on the prowl
paying taxes to voracious governments
How To Use ravening In A Sentence
- ravening wolves
- The captain and his mate enjoyed their supper, while Carne in the distance bore the pangs of a malady called bulimus, that is to say, a giant's ravening for victuals, without a babe's power of receiving them. Springhaven : a Tale of the Great War
- For years Martians were imagined as the stuff of nightmares - bug-eyed monsters, ravening warlords or advanced experimenters on humans.
- She said that she was tired of being pursued by ravening journalists.
- Unbidden, desire for her rose within, like some ravening beast.
- We were also advised that this was the normal practice for small businesses and was not contravening any laws.
- When Snow White's beauty wins the heart of the prince that the Queen desperately pursues, the Queen banishes her to the forest, where a ravening man-eating beast hungrily awaits.
- Once we get to dinner time the peace and quiet is shattered by three ravening teenagers all demanding food and demanding it now.
- Electricity crawled along the silhouette of the ravening beast, and its viciously pointed beak glinted and was outlined in a shifting corona of spitting sparks.
- The fusiliers drive with a practised authority, zigzagging, never contravening each other's line of fire. The top-cover soldiers swivel with their rifles to their shoulders, eyes pressed to the sights.