ravin
Americanverb (used with or without object)
verb
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Is there no peace without bloodshed under the sun and moon, no respite from ravin even when the night is hooded like a dead monk?
From Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine by Edward Harrison Barker
Such differences do exist, and conditions vary the world over, whence nature, which accumulates inequalities in the struggle for life, "with ravin shrieks against our creed."
From Heart of Man by George Edward Woodberry
The thievery of his thoughts and the ravin of his envy would have provided interesting bases of speculation for the reflective magistrate, since, if, according to the metaphysician, thoughts are things, he committed crimes daily.
From The Flaw in the Sapphire by Charles M. Snyder
Nature, as red in tooth and claw with ravin, is thus without question a large and general fact that must be considered by any theory of teleology which can be propounded.
From Thoughts on Religion by Charles Gore
Well, that was before you tuck to the fightin'; but I'm ravin'.
From The Dead Boxer The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two by William Carleton
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