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1. Large black bird with a straight bill and long wedge-shaped tail
   - Corvus corax

1. Obtain or seize by violence
    
2. Hunt for as food
   - prey, predate[2]
    
3. Eat greedily
   "he ravened three sandwiches";
   - devour, guttle, pig [informal]
    
4. Feed greedily
   "The lions ravened the bodies"

Derived forms: ravened, ravens, ravening

Type of: corvine bird, eat, feed, forage, seize

Part of: Corvus, genus Corvus

Encyclopedia: Raven, Paul