ravening

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adjective

1. devouring or craving food in great quantities
- edacious vultures
- a rapacious appetite
- ravenous as wolves
- voracious sharks
• Syn:
edacious, esurient, rapacious, ravenous, voracious, wolfish
• Similar to:
gluttonous
• Derivationally related forms:
voraciousness (for: voracious), voracity (for: voracious), ravenousness (for: ravenous), rapaciousness (for: rapacious), rapacity (for: rapacious), esurience (for: esurient), edacity (for: edacious)
2. 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
• Syn:
predatory, rapacious, raptorial, vulturine, vulturous
• Similar to:
aggressive
• Derivationally related forms:
vulture (for: vulturous), raptor (for: raptorial)
3. excessively greedy and grasping
- a rapacious divorcee on the prowl
- ravening creditors
- paying taxes to voracious governments
• Syn:
rapacious, voracious
• Similar to:
acquisitive
• Derivationally related forms:
voraciousness (for: voracious), rapacity (for: rapacious)

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  Corvus corax, devour, guttle, pig, prey, predate