Definitions for: 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"



Webster (1913) Definition: 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.

Synonyms: acquisitive, aggressive, edacious, esurient, gluttonous, predatory, rapacious, raptorial, ravenous, voracious, vulturine, vulturous, wolfish

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