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1. Living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey
   "ravening wolves";
   - predatory, rapacious, raptorial, vulturine, vulturous
    
2. Excessively greedy and grasping
   "ravening creditors";
   - rapacious, voracious
    
3. Devouring or craving food in great quantities
   "ravening vultures";
   - edacious, esurient, rapacious, ravenous, voracious, wolfish

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"

See also: acquisitive, aggressive, gluttonous

Type of: eat, feed, forage, seize

Encyclopedia: Ravening