Definition of ravenous

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Ravenous (a.) Devouring with rapacious eagerness; furiously voracious; hungry even to rage; as, a ravenous wolf or vulture..

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Ravin :: Ravin (a.) Ravenous.
Gourmand :: Gourmand (n.) A greedy or ravenous eater; a glutton. See Gormand.
Wolf :: Wolf (a.) Fig.: Any very ravenous, rapacious, or destructive person or thing; especially, want; starvation; as, they toiled hard to keep the wolf from the door..
Ravenous :: Ravenous (a.) Devouring with rapacious eagerness; furiously voracious; hungry even to rage; as, a ravenous wolf or vulture..
Rapacious :: Rapacious (a.) Avaricious; grasping; extortionate; also, greedy; ravenous; voracious; as, rapacious usurers; a rapacious appetite..
Cormoraut :: Cormoraut (a.) Ravenous; voracious.
Raphany :: Raphany (n.) A convulsive disease, attended with ravenous hunger, not uncommon in Sweden and Germany. It was so called because supposed to be caused by eating corn with which seeds of jointed charlock (Raphanus raphanistrum) had been mixed, but the condition is now known to be a form of ergotism..
Ravenous :: Ravenous (a.) Eager for prey or gratification; as, a ravenous appetite or desire..
Limosis :: Limosis (n.) A ravenous appetite caused by disease; excessive and morbid hunger.
Lupine :: Lupine (n.) Wolfish; ravenous.
Fell :: Fell (a.) Cruel; barbarous; inhuman; fierce; savage; ravenous.
Harpy :: Harpy (n.) A fabulous winged monster, ravenous and filthy, having the face of a woman and the body of a vulture, with long claws, and the face pale with hunger. Some writers mention two, others three..
Carnal :: Carnal (a.) Flesh-devouring; cruel; ravenous; bloody.
Intravenous :: Intravenous (a.) Within the veins.
Greedy :: Greedy (superl.) Having a keen appetite for food or drink; ravenous; voracious; very hungry; -- followed by of; as, a lion that is greedy of his prey..
Gormand :: Gormand (n.) A greedy or ravenous eater; a luxurious feeder; a gourmand.
Sharp-set :: Sharp-set (a.) Eager in appetite or desire of gratification; affected by keen hunger; ravenous; as, an eagle or a lion sharp-set..
Harpy :: Harpy (n.) One who is rapacious or ravenous; an extortioner.
Gormandize :: Gormandize (v. i. & t.) To eat greedily; to swallow voraciously; to feed ravenously or like a glutton.
Flock :: Flock (n.) A company or collection of living creatures; -- especially applied to sheep and birds, rarely to persons or (except in the plural) to cattle and other large animals; as, a flock of ravenous fowl..
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