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   ravening

   /ˈravənɪŋ/

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   • 1. (of a ferocious wild animal) extremely hungry and hunting for prey: "they turned on each other like ravening wolves"

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   What does ravening mean?

   • Get a quick, free translation! RAVENING definition: 1. (especially of wild animals) violently hunting for food: 2. A ravening group of people try to…. Learn more.

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   What is a synonym for ravening?

   • A prime synonym for ravening is voracious, which implies craving or eating a great deal of food, as in a voracious appetite or The kids were voracious after the hike. The word starving is often used as a synonym for very hungry or famished, but many people avoid it so as to avoid insensitive comparisons to those experiencing literal starvation.

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   What is a ravening animal?

   • From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Related topics: Animals rav‧e‧ning /ˈrævənɪŋ/ adjective literary ravening animals are hungry and dangerous a pack of ravening wolves Examples from the Corpus ravening • a ravening beast • Man then will be without an enemy among men and without fear of ravening beasts.

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   What does a ravening wolf mean?

   • Someone who's ravening is ferociously hungry, like a wild animal. A ravening monster in a horror film hunts its prey for food. While a ravening wolf is fierce and brutal in its hunger, you can also use ravening to describe someone who acts wild or brutish in other ways.

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   What does Raven mean?

   • Ravin. Eagerness for plunder; rapacity; extortion. Present participle of the obsolete verb raven "to prey". In these two days we saw how people who had once been good human beings had turned into ravening wolves. He says, Beware of false prophets which come to you in sheep 's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.

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   Is ravening a noun or a figurative word?

   • A person who has a ravening appetite—literally or figuratively—could be described as insatiable. The word ravening is also sometimes used as a noun. Synonyms for this sense include ravenousness and voraciousness. Both of these can be used figuratively outside the context of food. This is how the similar word rapacity is always used.

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3. dictionary.cambridge.org › dictionary › englishRAVENING | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary

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   Ravening means violently hunting for food, especially of wild animals, or behaving in a forceful way. Learn more about this literary adjective, its synonyms, and its usage in sentences.

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     RAVENING meaning: 1. (especially of wild animals) violently...

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     ravening definicja: 1. (especially of wild animals)...

   • Ravening in Simplified Chinese

     RAVENING translate: （尤指野兽）饿急了的，残暴掠食的, 贪婪无情的；不择手段的；巧取豪夺的....

   • Ravening in Traditional Chinese

     RAVENING translate: （尤指野獸）餓急了的，殘暴掠食的, 貪婪無情的；不擇手段的；巧取豪奪的....

   • Ravenous

     RAVENOUS definition: 1. extremely hungry: 2. wanting...

   • Ravine

     RAVINE definition: 1. a deep narrow valley with steep sides...

   • Ravel

     RAVEL definition: 1. to separate a knot, mass of threads,...

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   Ravening means rapacious or voracious, especially of animals such as wolves. Learn the origin, synonyms, and usage of this adjective and noun from Dictionary.com.

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   Someone who's ravening is ferociously hungry, like a wild animal. A ravening monster in a horror film hunts its prey for food. While a ravening wolf is fierce and brutal in its hunger, you can also use ravening to describe someone who acts wild or brutish in other ways.

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   RAVENING means voracious or predatory, especially of animals such as wolves. Learn how to use this word in sentences, find synonyms and translations, and play a quick word challenge.

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   Ravening is an adjective meaning greedily searching for prey, or a noun meaning eagerness for plunder. Learn the origin, synonyms, and sentence examples of ravening from YourDictionary.

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   Ravening is an adjective that means aggressive and hungry, especially of animals. It is a literary word that can be used with nouns like wolf. See examples, pronunciation and collocations.

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   Ravening means hungry and dangerous, especially for animals. It is the present participle of raven, which means to take away by force or eat eagerly. See how to use ravening in sentences and its origin.