ravening
Americanadjective
noun
adjective
Synonym Usage
See ravenous.
Other Word Forms
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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He avoided opportunities to address the ravening reporters.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 4, 2023
Britain’s ravening tabloids have been a bit more circumspect than usual about Harry’s return.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 14, 2021
In the post-apocalypse, you will … walk in Elvis’ blue suede shoes … ride in The King’s pink ’55 Cadillac … fend off swarms of the ravening undead.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 16, 2019
This fatalism, which exists in contrast to Jones’s uncommon openness and aesthetic ravening, is wrenching.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 10, 2019
Once outside the godswood the cold descended on him like a ravening wolf and caught him in its teeth.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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