Ravening \Rav"en*ing\, n.
Eagerness for plunder; rapacity; extortion. --Luke xi. 39.
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Ravening \Rav"en*ing\, a.
Greedily devouring; rapacious; as, ravening wolves. --
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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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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,
vulturine, vulturous]
2: excessively greedy and grasping; "a rapacious divorcee on
the prowl"; "ravening creditors"; "paying taxes to
voracious governments" [syn: rapacious, voracious]
3: devouring or craving food in great quantities; "edacious
vultures"; "a rapacious appetite"; "ravenous as wolves";
"voracious sharks" [syn: edacious, esurient, rapacious,
ravenous, voracious, wolfish]
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