Sekirov Dictionary

ravening

/ˈɹævənɪŋ/

adjective 2
noun 2
forms 3

adjective2

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Voracious and greedy.
- There is no shortage of ravening friends and relatives on the day one hits the lottery.
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(no longer used) Subject to the voracity of a predator.
- To be the strongers rauening pray the weaker did begin, And might went for oppressed right […] — 1567

noun2

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Eagerness for plunder; rapacity; extortion.
- And the Lord said unto him, Now do ye Pharisees make clean the outside of the cup and the platter; but your inward part is full of ravening and wickedness. — 1611
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(literary, no longer used) Predation (by an animal); voracious eating or consumption.
- Some rather deuoure than eate their meate non other wyse than suche as be ledde in to prison. This rauenyng and deuourynge is appropred to theues. — 1532

forms

ravenings · more ravening · most ravening

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