[ UK /ɹˈævənəs/ ]
[ US /ˈɹævənəs/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. devouring or craving food in great quantities
    a rapacious appetite
    ravenous as wolves
    voracious sharks
    edacious vultures
  2. extremely hungry
    fell into the esurient embrance of a predatory enemy
    a ravenous boy
    the family was starved and ragged
    they were tired and famished for food and sleep
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How To Use ravenous In A Sentence

  • When I looked at the chart a second time, I saw that there was a lot Michael had left out of his personal history; specifically, IVDU—intravenous drug use—dating back ten years, and a major depression that had led to a psychiatric hospitalization and ECT, electroconvulsive therapy. After the Diagnosis
  • She was treated with intravenous folinic acid and antibiotics and was given transfusions of blood products.
  • For the first month of Ricardo and Felicity's affair, they greeted one another at every stolen rendezvous with a kiss -- a lengthy, ravenous kiss, Ricardo lapping and sucking at Felicity's mouth as if she were a giant cage-mounted water bottle and he were the world's thirstiest gerbil. Delicious LiveJournal Links for 7-3-2010
  • They may also administer intravenous antihistamines and cortisone to reduce inflammation of your air passages and improve your breathing.
  • At night, they advised us to put on our under-bungalow lights and wait for the floorshow of ravenous and strange-looking fish gobbling up plankton just beneath us.
  • The same drug given intravenously prevents the postprandial increase in sigmoid segmenting pressure activity in patients with irritable bowel syndrome.
  • Aaron's farm has few drainage problems, but his land, like most gardens in his area, teems with ravenous gophers who seem to crave garlic as avidly as any gourmand.
  • These biopsies usually require only local anesthesia with intravenous sedation and may be done as an outpatient procedure.
  • At the end of a dusty trip to an outlying village of skeletons, I would have ravenous hunger. THE ZANZIBAR CHEST: A Memoir of Love and War
  • Intravenous immunoglobulin prophylaxis and therapy is being given for a growing list of indications in the fields of immunology, neurology, hematology, and oncology.
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