RAVENOUSLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ravenously mean? 

• RAVENOUSLY (adverb)
  The adverb RAVENOUSLY has 1 sense:

1. in the manner of someone who is very hungry

  Familiarity information: RAVENOUSLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RAVENOUSLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In the manner of someone who is very hungry

Synonyms:

hungrily; ravenously

Context example:

he pounced on the food hungrily

Pertainym:

ravenous (extremely hungry)

 Context examples 

The girl emptied the stiffened mould into my hand, and I devoured it ravenously.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Others, with slabs of bacon and joints of dried meat upon the ends of their pikes, held them up to the blaze or tore at them ravenously with their teeth.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There were four newly hatched chicks, a day old—little specks of pulsating life no more than a mouthful; and he ate them ravenously, thrusting them alive into his mouth and crunching them like egg-shells between his teeth.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

He took what he could get, ravenously and unscrupulously—eventually he took Daisy one still October night, took her because he had no real right to touch her hand.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)