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How to pronounce ravening in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms edacious, esurient, rapacious, ravenous, voracious, wolfish
Type Words
Synonyms rapacious, voracious


ravening creditors.
Type Words
Synonyms predatory, rapacious, raptorial, vulturine, vulturous


ravening wolves.

Examples of ravening

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She was ravening for a richer, more expansive life she could only dimly envision.
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Brad will not place his past life in the hands of the ravening investigative media.
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As for Federer, McEnroe detected a ravening scent of peril in the air.
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Stewart in her new role as ravening vampire opened up new possibilities, with fun to be had.
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What has Brook done with this ravening epic of the thankless daughters and their wild old fool of a father?
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A formidable but unloving mother and the death of his father when Washington was 11 instilled in him a ravening ambition.
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To get candidates that look norther, feel norther, speak norther and eat norther, but that are ravening Tories underneath.
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The titles are the sole piece of verbal information we have about a lyric-less song, and our brains fall on it, ravening.
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Though the moviemakers clearly admire their subject, they are careful, for example, to dramatize his ravening egomania.
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More examples
  • Predatory: 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"
  • Rapacious: excessively greedy and grasping; "a rapacious divorcee on the prowl"; "ravening creditors"; "paying taxes to voracious governments"
  • Edacious: devouring or craving food in great quantities; "edacious vultures"; "a rapacious appetite"; "ravenous as wolves"; "voracious sharks"
  • [Ps22: 13; Eze22:25,27; Mt7: 15; Lk11: 39] 1. Preying with rapacity; voraciously devouring; as a ravening wolf. 2. Eagerness for plunder [Lk11.]
  • Theasurus-dictionary.com says 1. eagerness for plunder; rapacity; extortion. 2. greedily devouring; rapacious; as, ravening wolves. And there are a really great group of ecommerce links on the page there.