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    RAVENING

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     I. (adjective) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Devouring or craving food in great quantitiesplay

    Example:

    voracious sharks

    Synonyms:

    edacious; esurient; rapacious; ravening; ravenous; voracious; wolfish

    Classified under:

    Adjectives

    Similar:

    gluttonous (given to excess in consumption of especially food or drink)

    Sense 2

    Meaning:

    Excessively greedy and graspingplay

    Example:

    paying taxes to voracious governments

    Synonyms:

    rapacious; ravening; voracious

    Classified under:

    Adjectives

    Similar:

    acquisitive (eager to acquire and possess things especially material possessions or ideas)

    Sense 3

    Meaning:

    Living by preying on other animals especially by catching living preyplay

    Example:

    a vulturine taste for offal

    Synonyms:

    predatory; rapacious; raptorial; ravening; vulturine; vulturous

    Classified under:

    Adjectives

    Similar:

    aggressive (having or showing determination and energetic pursuit of your ends)

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