ravening
Definition
- Adjective:
- Devouring or craving food in great quantities; voracious: Describes an animal or, figuratively, a person that consumes or desires to consume food with extreme greed or hunger.
- Excessively greedy and grasping; predatory: Describes a relentless, aggressive desire for something, often money or possessions, akin to a predator.
- Living by preying on other animals: Describes the characteristic of an animal that hunts and kills other animals for food.
Usage Examples
- Adjective (Voracious):
- The ravening wolves surrounded the weakened elk.
- After the long fast, he felt a ravening hunger.
- Adjective (Greedy/Grasping):
- The ravening creditors hounded the debtor for payment.
- He was accused of having a ravening ambition for power.
- Adjective (Predatory):
- The eagle is a ravening bird of prey.
- The documentary showed the ravening nature of sharks.
Advanced Usage
- Figurative Use: Often used to describe non-physical, insatiable appetites, such as for power, wealth, or knowledge.
- The corporation's ravening expansion consumed its smaller competitors.
- She had a ravening curiosity about the world.
Variants and Related Words
- Ravenous (adj.): Extremely hungry; voracious. (e.g., )
- Rapacity (n.): Aggressive greed. (e.g., )
- Voracious (adj.): Wanting or consuming great quantities. (e.g., ).
Synonyms
- Voracious: Having a huge appetite.
- Rapacious: Aggressively greedy.
- Predatory: Living by preying on others.
- Vulturine: Resembling a vulture in being predatory or scavenging.
- Edacious: (Formal) Devouring; voracious.
Related Phrases/Idioms
- (To have) a ravening appetite: To be extremely and greedily hungry.
- The hike gave us all a ravening appetite.
- Ravening for [something]: To have an intense, predatory desire for something non-food related.
- The tabloids were ravening for a scandal.
Adjective
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devouring or craving food in great quantities
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edacious vultures
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a rapacious appetite
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ravenous as wolves
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voracious sharks
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excessively greedy and grasping
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a rapacious divorcee on the prowl
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ravening creditors
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paying taxes to voracious governments
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living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey
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a predatory bird
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the rapacious wolf
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raptorial birds
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ravening wolves
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a vulturine taste for offal
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