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Voracious and greedy.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- There is no shortage of ravening friends and relatives on the day one hits the lottery.
- 1555, Richard Eden (translator), The Decades of the Newe Worlde or West India by Pietro Martire d’Anghiera, London: Edward Sutton, Decade 3, Book 5, p. 116, They eate mans fleshe but seldome, bycause they meete not oftentymes with strangiers, except they goo foorth of theyr owne dominions with a mayne army of purpose to hunt for men, when theyr rauenynge appetite pricketh them forwarde.
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Subject to the voracity of a predator.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic
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Predation (by an animal); voracious eating or consumption.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, literary
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Eagerness for plunder; rapacity; extortion.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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adjective satellite
Meaning 5
devouring or craving food in great quantities
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- edacious vultures
- a rapacious appetite
- ravenous as wolves
- voracious sharks
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: edacious, esurient, rapacious, ravenous, voracious, wolfish
Antonyms: none provided
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adjective satellite
Meaning 6
excessively greedy and grasping
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- a rapacious divorcee on the prowl
- ravening creditors
- paying taxes to voracious governments
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: rapacious, voracious
Antonyms: none provided
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adjective satellite
Meaning 7
living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- a predatory bird
- the rapacious wolf
- raptorial birds
- ravening wolves
- a vulturine taste for offal
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: predatory, rapacious, raptorial, vulturine, vulturous
Antonyms: none provided
Present participle of the obsolete verb raven (“to prey”).
