Ravening
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈɹævənɪŋ/ · Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Ravening is an adjective meaning Voracious and greedy.
Meaning
Voracious and greedy.
More Meanings
- Eagerness for plunder; rapacity; extortion.
- (archaic) Subject to the voracity of a predator.
- (archaic, literary) Predation (by an animal); voracious eating or consumption.
Example Sentences
There is no shortage of ravening friends and relatives on the day one hits the lottery.
To be the strongers rauening pray the weaker did begin, And might went for oppressed right […]
Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.
[…] then, when sunk on the down of usurped pomp, he shall have sufficiently indulged his meditations with what King he shall next glut his ravening maw […]
Word Forms
- ravenings
Synonyms for ravening
Depending on context, synonyms include esurient, rapacious, voracious, aggressive, acquisitive, edacious.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include rapacious, edacious, voracious, gluttonous, esurient, predatory.
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