ravening

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ravening

A ravening wolf hunts in the snowy forest.

Definition
  1. 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.
ravening

A ravening wolf hunts in the snowy forest.

Adjective
  1. devouring or craving food in great quantities
    • edacious vultures
    • a rapacious appetite
    • ravenous as wolves
    • voracious sharks
  2. excessively greedy and grasping
    • a rapacious divorcee on the prowl
    • ravening creditors
    • paying taxes to voracious governments
  3. 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

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