ravening

adjective · nounB1

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Tính từ

adjective

Comparative

more ravening

Superlative

most ravening

1.
Voracious and greedy.
There is no shortage of ravening friends and relatives on the day one hits the lottery.
1555, Richard Eden (translator), The Decades of the Newe Worlde or West India by Pietro Martire d’Anghiera, London: Edward Sutton, Decade 3, Book 5, p. 116, They eate mans fleshe but seldome, bycause they meete not oftentymes with strangiers, except they goo foorth of theyr owne dominions with a mayne army of purpose to hunt for men, when theyr rauenynge appetite pricketh them forwarde.
2.
(archaic)Subject to the voracity of a predator.

Danh từ

noun

Plural noun:

ravenings

1.
(archaic, literary)Predation (by an animal); voracious eating or consumption.
2.
Eagerness for plunder; rapacity; extortion.

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