Ravin

Quick meaning: Ravin is a noun meaning (countable, uncountable) Property obtained or seized by force or violence; booty, plunder, spoils.

Meaning

(countable, uncountable) Property obtained or seized by force or violence; booty, plunder, spoils.

More Meanings

1. (uncountable) Of a (predatory) animal: seizing or devouring of food or prey; predation.
2. (uncountable, figurative) Gluttony, greed, rapacity; also, the quality of being predatory; predatoriness.
3. A predatory animal; a predator.
4. Obtaining or seizing property by force or violence; pillage, plunder, robbery; (countable, chiefly in the plural) an instance of this.
5. That which a predatory animal seizes for food; prey; also (hunting) an animal which is hunted; quarry.
6. Sometimes followed by away or from: to obtain or seize (something, especially property) by force or violence; to plunder.
7. (obsolete) Ravenous.

Example Sentences

Tho' Nature, red in tooth and claw / With ravine, shriek'd against his creed

Better 'twere / I met the ravin lion when he roared / With sharp constraint of hunger;

A Lion nevv returnde from rauening pray [prey], / came to the fount, his blood to vvaſh avvay.

Hee changed his vvages tenne times, ſought to eat him vp, & to rauin all hee could get from him.

Word Forms

• ravins
• raven
• ravine
• ravining
• ravined
• ravinest
• ravinedst
• ravineth

Synonyms for ravin

Depending on context, synonyms include avarice, covetise, covetousness, cupidity, gluttony, greed.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include ravish, raven, gilravage, rapine, ravage, creach.

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