[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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