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Ravening

adjective
1.
Living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey.  Synonyms: predatory, rapacious, raptorial, vulturine, vulturous.  "The rapacious wolf" , "Raptorial birds" , "Ravening wolves" , "A vulturine taste for offal"
2.
Excessively greedy and grasping.  Synonyms: rapacious, voracious.  "Ravening creditors" , "Paying taxes to voracious governments"
3.
Devouring or craving food in great quantities.  Synonyms: edacious, esurient, rapacious, ravenous, voracious, wolfish.  "A rapacious appetite" , "Ravenous as wolves" , "Voracious sharks"


Raven

verb
1.
Obtain or seize by violence.
2.
Prey on or hunt for.  Synonyms: predate, prey.
3.
Eat greedily.  Synonyms: devour, guttle, pig.
4.
Feed greedily.



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"Ravening" Quotes from Famous Books



... restlessness, his whining, the channels that tears had worn under his faithful eyes. She would have liked to take him up in her arms and comfort him; but once when her pity moved her to attempt it, the dog ran at her ravening. The husband cried out: 'Has he hurt you, my Love?' and was for stringing him up. But some compunction stirred in her, and she saved him from the rope, though she made no more ...
— An Isle in the Water • Katharine Tynan
... those rocky, rugged hills. That guarded well the loveliest spot on earth Until the Moguls centuries after came, Like swarms of locusts swept before the wind, Or ravening wolves, to conquer fair Cashmere.[4] And when she reached the top, before her lay, As on a map spread out, her native land, By lofty mountains walled on every side, From winds, from wars, and from the world shut ...
— The Dawn and the Day • Henry Thayer Niles
... the rocks 82 and shall bear a ravening lion, Strong and fierce to devour, who the knees of many shall loosen. Ponder this well in your minds, I bid you, Corinthians, whose dwelling Lies about fair Peirene's spring ...
— The History Of Herodotus - Volume 2 (of 2) • Herodotus
... the sort that had flooded the Nipissing and the Gowganda countries with eager searchers and delvers, and created villages and even towns in a wilderness where formerly the moose wandered in the great hardwood swamps and the deer were often chased by ravening packs of ...
— The Peace of Roaring River • George van Schaick
... his own tongue. "It is none other!" With a hand of great rejoicing, he stirred the unconscious Sheik—over whom the sand was already sifting as the now ravening simoom lashed it along. ...
— The Flying Legion • George Allan England


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