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Meaning of 'ravenous' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Ravenous [ a.]
- Devouring with rapacious eagerness; furiously voracious; hungry even to rage; as, a ravenous wolf or vulture.
- Eager for prey or gratification; as, a ravenous appetite or desire.

Meaning of 'ravenous' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . ravenous [ s]
Meaning (1):
- devouring or craving food in great quantities
Example in sentence:
  • a rapacious appetite;
  • edacious vultures;
  • ravenous as wolves;
  • voracious sharks
Meaning (2):
- extremely hungry
Example in sentence:
  • a ravenous boy;
  • fell into the esurient embrance of a predatory enemy;
  • the family was starved and ragged;
  • they were tired and famished for food and sleep

Nearby Words:

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