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ravenous 音標拼音: [r'ævənəs] a. 貪婪的,餓極的,渴望的,狼吞虎咽的 貪婪的,餓極的,渴望的,狼吞虎咽的 ravenous adj 1: extremely hungry; " they were tired and famished for food and sleep"; " a ravenous boy"; " the family was starved and ragged"; " fell into the esurient embrance of a predatory enemy" [ synonym: { famished}, { ravenous}, { sharp- set}, { starved}, { esurient}] 2: devouring or craving food in great quantities; " edacious vultures"; " a rapacious appetite"; " ravenous as wolves"; " voracious sharks" [ synonym: { edacious}, { esurient}, { rapacious}, { ravening}, { ravenous}, { voracious}, { wolfish}] Ravenous \ Rav" en* ous\ ( r[ a^] v"' n*[ u^] s), a. [ From 2d { Raven}.] 1. Devouring with rapacious eagerness; furiously voracious; hungry even to rage; as, a ravenous wolf or vulture. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Eager for prey or gratification; as, a ravenous appetite or desire. [ 1913 Webster] -- { Rav" en* ous* ly}, adv. -- { Rav" en* ous* ness}, n. [ 1913 Webster] 85 Moby Thesaurus words for " ravenous": Apician, a hog for, acquisitive, all- devouring, all- engulfing, avaricious, avid, bloodsucking, bolting, bottomless, coveting, covetous, cramming, crapulent, crapulous, devouring, dog- hungry, edacious, empty, esurient, extortionate, famished, famishing, fasting, glutting, gluttonizing, gluttonous, gobbling, gorging, grabby, grasping, greedy, gulping, guttling, guzzling, half- famished, half- starved, hoggish, hungering, hungry, hyperphagic, insatiable, insatiate, intemperate, limitless, lupine, mercenary, miserly, money- hungry, money- mad, omnivorous, overgreedy, parasitic, peckish, piggish, pinched with hunger, polyphagic, predacious, predatory, quenchless, rapacious, raptorial, ravening, sharkish, sharp- set, slakeless, sordid, starved, starving, stuffing, swinish, unappeasable, unappeased, unfilled, unquenchable, unsated, unsatisfied, unslakeable, unslaked, venal, voracious, vulturine, vulturous, wolfing, wolfish
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