Found 4 hits - Term: ravening, Database: *, Strategy: exact
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
ravening \rav"ening\, n.
eagerness for plunder; rapacity; extortion. --luke xi. 39.
1913 webster
- [2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
ravening \rav"ening\, a.
greedily devouring; rapacious; as, ravening wolves. --
rav"eningly, adv.
1913 webster
see also:
rav"eningly
- [3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
raven \rav"en\, v. t. imp. p. p. ravened ra^v"'nd; p.
pr. vb. n. ravening. written also ravin, and ravine.
1913 webster
1. to obtain or seize by violence. --hakewill.
1913 webster
2. to devour with great eagerness.
1913 webster
like rats that ravin down their proper bane. --shak.
1913 webster
see also:
ravened ravening
- [4] : WordNet (r) 2.0
ravening
adj 1: 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" syn: predatory, rapacious, raptorial,
vulturine, vulturous
2: excessively greedy and grasping; "a rapacious divorcee on
the prowl"; "ravening creditors"; "paying taxes to
voracious governments" syn: rapacious, voracious
3: devouring or craving food in great quantities; "edacious
vultures"; "a rapacious appetite"; "ravenous as wolves";
"voracious sharks" syn: edacious, esurient, rapacious,
ravenous, voracious, wolfish
see also:
predatory rapacious raptorial vulturine vulturous voracious
edacious esurient ravenous wolfish
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