[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

ravenous \rav"enous\ ra^v"'nu^s, a. from 2d raven.
   1. devouring with rapacious eagerness; furiously voracious;
      hungry even to rage; as, a ravenous wolf or vulture.
      1913 webster

   2. eager for prey or gratification; as, a ravenous appetite
      or desire.
      1913 webster -- rav"enously, adv. --
      rav"enousness, n.
      1913 webster
see also:
raven rav"enously rav"enousness 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

ravenous
     adj 1: extremely hungry; "they were tired and famished for food and
            sleep"; "a ravenous boy"; "the family was starved and
            ragged"; "fell into the esurient embrance of a
            predatory enemy" syn: famished, sharp-set, starved,
             esurient
     2: devouring or craving food in great quantities; "edacious
        vultures"; "a rapacious appetite"; "ravenous as wolves";
        "voracious sharks" syn: edacious, esurient, rapacious,
         ravening, voracious, wolfish
see also:
famished sharp-set starved esurient edacious rapacious 
ravening voracious wolfish 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

85 moby thesaurus words for "ravenous":
   apician, a hog for, acquisitive, all-devouring, all-engulfing,
   avaricious, avid, bloodsucking, bolting, bottomless, coveting,
   covetous, cramming, crapulent, crapulous, devouring, dog-hungry,
   edacious, empty, esurient, extortionate, famished, famishing,
   fasting, glutting, gluttonizing, gluttonous, gobbling, gorging,
   grabby, grasping, greedy, gulping, guttling, guzzling,
   half-famished, half-starved, hoggish, hungering, hungry,
   hyperphagic, insatiable, insatiate, intemperate, limitless, lupine,
   mercenary, miserly, money-hungry, money-mad, omnivorous,
   overgreedy, parasitic, peckish, piggish, pinched with hunger,
   polyphagic, predacious, predatory, quenchless, rapacious,
   raptorial, ravening, sharkish, sharp-set, slakeless, sordid,
   starved, starving, stuffing, swinish, unappeasable, unappeased,
   unfilled, unquenchable, unsated, unsatisfied, unslakeable,
   unslaked, venal, voracious, vulturine, vulturous, wolfing,
   wolfish

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