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UK
/ɹˈævənɪŋ/
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ADJECTIVE
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devouring or craving food in great quantities
a rapacious appetite
ravenous as wolves
voracious sharks
edacious vultures -
living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey
a predatory bird
raptorial birds
a vulturine taste for offal
the rapacious wolf
ravening wolves -
excessively greedy and grasping
ravening creditors
a rapacious divorcee on the prowl
paying taxes to voracious governments
How To Use ravening In A Sentence
- Watching husbands and wives and children all screaming at each other and acting like a ravening pack of spoiled brats for an hour is pretty unedifying stuff.
- She sees them as ravening beasts that will gnaw holes in the walls and use our credit cards when we aren't looking.
- It is the ravening lion roaming the earth seeking whom it may devour.
- He got savaged, for the umpteenth time, by a horde of ravening Republicans.
- If anything, like a ravening creature, made savage through incarceration, the recollection had grown more vicious with the passage of time. MR GOLIGHTLY'S HOLIDAY
- While your legends may beg to differ, we are not mindless, ravening creatures.
- But this terror of contravening an unascertained and unascertainable will, cannot coexist with reflection: it disappears with civilization, and can no more be reproduced than the fear of ghosts after childhood. Uncollected Prose
- A ravening wolf in sheep's clothing.
- The salmon had already turned into a ravening wolf, eating at my innards.
- People talk about that as contravening the right of presumption of innocence.
