Meaning of RAVENING
| Pronunciation: | | 'ravuning
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- [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"
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| | Synonyms: | | acquisitive, aggressive, edacious, esurient, gluttonous, predatory, rapacious, raptorial, ravenous, voracious, vulturine, vulturous, wolfish |
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\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.
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