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ADJECTIVE (3)

1. living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey;
- Example: "a predatory bird"
- Example: "the rapacious wolf"
- Example: "raptorial birds"
- Example: "ravening wolves"
- Example: "a vulturine taste for offal"
[syn: predatory, rapacious, raptorial, ravening, vulturine, vulturous]

2. excessively greedy and grasping;
- Example: "a rapacious divorcee on the prowl"
- Example: "ravening creditors"
- Example: "paying taxes to voracious governments"
[syn: rapacious, ravening, voracious]

3. devouring or craving food in great quantities;
- Example: "edacious vultures"
- Example: "a rapacious appetite"
- Example: "ravenous as wolves"
- Example: "voracious sharks"
[syn: edacious, esurient, rapacious, ravening, ravenous, voracious, wolfish]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Ravening \Rav"en*ing\, n.
   Eagerness for plunder; rapacity; extortion. --Luke xi. 39.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Ravening \Rav"en*ing\, a.
   Greedily devouring; rapacious; as, ravening wolves. --
   Rav"en*ing*ly, adv.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Raven \Rav"en\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ravened (r[a^]v"'nd); p.
   pr. & vb. n. Ravening.] [Written also ravin, and ravine.]
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   1. To obtain or seize by violence. --Hakewill.
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   2. To devour with great eagerness.
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            Like rats that ravin down their proper bane. --Shak.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

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,
           ravening, vulturine, vulturous]
    2: excessively greedy and grasping; "a rapacious divorcee on the
       prowl"; "ravening creditors"; "paying taxes to voracious
       governments" [syn: rapacious, ravening, voracious]
    3: devouring or craving food in great quantities; "edacious
       vultures"; "a rapacious appetite"; "ravenous as wolves";
       "voracious sharks" [syn: edacious, esurient, rapacious,
       ravening, ravenous, voracious, wolfish]