ravening

Adjective

• devouring or craving food in great quantities
  • edacious vultures
    
  • a rapacious appetite
    
  • ravenous as wolves
    
  • voracious sharks
    

• excessively greedy and grasping
  • a rapacious divorcee on the prowl
    
  • ravening creditors
    
  • paying taxes to voracious governments
    

• 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
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  edacious , esurient , rapacious , ravenous , voracious , wolfish , predatory , raptorial , vulturine , vulturous