RAVENING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ravening mean? 

• RAVENING (adjective)
  The adjective RAVENING has 3 senses:

1. living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey

2. excessively greedy and grasping

3. devouring or craving food in great quantities

  Familiarity information: RAVENING used as an adjective is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RAVENING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey

Synonyms:

predatory; rapacious; raptorial; ravening; vulturine; vulturous

Context example:

a vulturine taste for offal

Similar:

aggressive (having or showing determination and energetic pursuit of your ends)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Excessively greedy and grasping

Synonyms:

rapacious; ravening; voracious

Context example:

paying taxes to voracious governments

Similar:

acquisitive (eager to acquire and possess things especially material possessions or ideas)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Devouring or craving food in great quantities

Synonyms:

edacious; esurient; rapacious; ravening; ravenous; voracious; wolfish

Context example:

voracious sharks

Similar:

gluttonous (given to excess in consumption of especially food or drink)

 Context examples 

“As well hold parley with a pack of ravening wolves,” said the French captain.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Pent in, a hundred feet from earth, with a furnace raging under them and a ravening multitude all round who thirsted for their blood, it seemed indeed as though no men had ever come through such peril with their lives.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

For it was a different place from that which he had pictured—very different from that which he had heard described when the master of the novices held forth to his charges upon the ravening wolves who lurked for them beyond the peaceful folds of Beaulieu.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)