Adjective ravening has 3 senses
- predatory, rapacious, raptorial, ravening, vulturine, vulturous - living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey; "a predatory bird"; "the rapacious wolf"; "raptorial birds"; "ravening wolves"; "a vulturine taste for offal"
Antonyms: unaggressive, nonaggressive (indirect, via aggressive)
- rapacious, ravening, voracious - excessively greedy and grasping; "a rapacious divorcee on the prowl"; "ravening creditors"; "paying taxes to voracious governments"
Antonym: unacquisitive (indirect, via acquisitive)
- edacious, esurient, rapacious, ravening, ravenous, voracious, wolfish - devouring or craving food in great quantities; "edacious vultures"; "a rapacious appetite"; "ravenous as wolves"; "voracious sharks"
Antonym: abstemious (indirect, via gluttonous)
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Verb raven has 4 senses
- raven - obtain or seize by violence
--1 is one way to seize
Sample sentence:
Something ----s
- raven, prey, predate - prey on or hunt for; "These mammals predate certain eggs"
--2 is one way to forage
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
=> Somebody ----s
- devour, guttle, raven, pig - eat greedily; "he devoured three sandwiches"
--3 is one way to eat
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
- raven - feed greedily; "The lions ravened the bodies"
--4 is one way to feed, eat
Sample sentences:
Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP
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