Associations to the word «Ravening»
Noun
Verb
Wiktionary
RAVENING, adjective. Voracious and greedy.
RAVENING, noun. Eagerness for plunder; rapacity; extortion.
Dictionary definition
RAVENING, adjective. 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".
RAVENING, adjective. Excessively greedy and grasping; "a rapacious divorcee on the prowl"; "ravening creditors"; "paying taxes to voracious governments".
RAVENING, adjective. Devouring or craving food in great quantities; "edacious vultures"; "a rapacious appetite"; "ravenous as wolves"; "voracious sharks".
Wise words
In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike
fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the
new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.