ravening Meaning, Definition & Usage

1. verb obtain or seize by violence
   raven.
   
2. verb prey on or hunt for
   predate; prey; raven.
   
   • These mammals predate certain eggs
3. verb eat greedily
   raven; devour; pig; guttle.
   
   • he devoured three sandwiches
4. verb feed greedily
   raven.
   
   • The lions ravened the bodies
5. adjective satellite living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey
   raptorial; rapacious; vulturous; vulturine; predatory.
   
   • a predatory bird
   • the rapacious wolf
   • raptorial birds
   • ravening wolves
   • a vulturine taste for offal
6. adjective satellite excessively greedy and grasping
   rapacious; voracious.
   
   • a rapacious divorcee on the prowl
   • ravening creditors
   • paying taxes to voracious governments
7. adjective satellite devouring or craving food in great quantities
   voracious; wolfish; rapacious; esurient; edacious; ravenous.
   
   • edacious vultures
   • a rapacious appetite
   • ravenous as wolves
   • voracious sharks

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