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ravening a. 獵食.狼吞虎咽的;貪婪的 獵食.狼吞虎咽的;貪婪的 ravening adj 1: 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" [synonym: {predatory}, {rapacious}, {raptorial}, {ravening}, {vulturine}, {vulturous}] 2: excessively greedy and grasping; "a rapacious divorcee on the prowl"; "ravening creditors"; "paying taxes to voracious governments" [synonym: {rapacious}, {ravening}, {voracious}] 3: 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}] Ravening \Rav"en*ing\, n.
Eagerness for plunder; rapacity; extortion. --Luke xi. 39. [1913 Webster] Ravening \Rav"en*ing\, a. Greedily devouring; rapacious; as, ravening wolves. -- {Rav"en*ing*ly}, adv. [1913 Webster] Raven \Rav"en\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Ravened} (r[a^]v"'nd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Ravening}.] [Written also ravin, and ravine.] [1913 Webster] 1. To obtain or seize by violence. --Hakewill. [1913 Webster] 2. To devour with great eagerness. [1913 Webster] Like rats that ravin down their proper bane. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
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