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Ravening

//ˈɹævənɪŋ// adj, noun

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Voracious and greedy.

    "There is no shortage of ravening friends and relatives on the day one hits the lottery."

  2. 2
    Subject to the voracity of a predator. archaic

    "To be the strongers rauening pray the weaker did begin, And might went for oppressed right […]"

Adjective
  1. 1
    devouring or craving food in great quantities wordnet
  2. 2
    excessively greedy and grasping wordnet
  3. 3
    living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    Predation (by an animal); voracious eating or consumption. archaic, literary

    "Some rather deuoure than eate their meate non other wyse than suche as be ledde in to prison. This rauenyng and deuourynge is appropred to theues."

  2. 2
    Eagerness for plunder; rapacity; extortion.

    "We must kyll diuelish pryde, furious angre, insatiable couetousnes, filthy lucre, stinking lechery, deadly hatred & malice, foxy wilines, woluish rauening & deuouring, and al other vnreasonable lustes and desires of the fleshe."

Etymology

Etymology 1

Present participle of the obsolete verb raven (“to prey”).

Etymology 2

Present participle of the obsolete verb raven (“to prey”).

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