ravening
Americanadjective
noun
adjective
Related Words
See ravenous.
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Etymology
Origin of ravening
Explanation
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. A businessman's ravening greed is so savage that he doesn't care who's hurt in his pursuit of money. A crowd of ravening children might dive for candy beneath a piñata, shoving each other out of the way. A now obsolete verb, raven, or "prey, plunder, or devour," is the root of ravenous.
Vocabulary lists containing ravening
Example Sentences
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Ravening king of the folk, for that thou hast thy rule over abjects; Else, son of Atreus, now were this outrage on me thy last one.
From Poems — Volume 3 by Meredith, George
Ravening wolves will fall on your flock, and who will protect it when the shepherd is struck?
From Stories of the Saints by Candle-Light by Barclay, Vera C. (Vera Charlesworth)
Ravening beasts and poisonous reptiles lurk in those abodes of the riches and the poverty that are no longer known to our life.
From A Traveler from Altruria: Romance by Howells, William Dean
Ravening, devouring, eager for prey; often used of wild animals.
From The Story of Sigurd the Volsung by Turner, Winifred
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