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Ravenous   /rˈævənəs/   Listen
adjective
Ravenous  adj.  
1.
Devouring with rapacious eagerness; furiously voracious; hungry even to rage; as, a ravenous wolf or vulture.
2.
Eager for prey or gratification; as, a ravenous appetite or desire.





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"Ravenous" Quotes from Famous Books



... are sometimes found upon floating ice-cakes a hundred miles from land, having been caught during some sudden break up of the vast ice-fields of arctic seas, and every year a dozen or more come drifting down to the northern shores of Iceland, where, ravenous after their long voyage, they fall furiously upon the herds. Their life on shore, however, is very brief, as the inhabitants rise in ...
— Harper's Young People, January 20, 1880 - An Illustrated Weekly • Various
... repent of in the warmth of his delight at finding her again. After she was in bed, and he had heard from the landlady that she seemed better and more comfortable, he and Lion had a good supper—a meal the dog appeared thoroughly to enjoy, and which he ate with a ravenous appetite. ...
— Gladys, the Reaper • Anne Beale
... came up with a banjo and French harp to put the bear through his performances, she watched the dancing at a respectful distance. She was not at all sure about her safety after that, as long as she was in sight of the Kentucky woods. She could not be convinced that all sorts of ravenous beasts were not lurking in their shadows, and would not have been surprised at any time to have met a live Indian in ...
— The Little Colonel's House Party • Annie Fellows Johnston
... makes me feel ravenous. But, as I was going to say, there were abundant signs of the change beginning. He's ...
— Jack at Sea - All Work and no Play made him a Dull Boy • George Manville Fenn
... own advantage. The immediate danger in China seems, so far as I can judge, to be that the anti-foreign feeling, which is undoubtedly intense especially in the south of the Empire, may come to a head any day and prematurely explode. The nincompoops and quidnuncs and newspaper men ravenous for copy who prate about a "yellow peril" may, in this latter fact, find some slight excuse for their blatant lucubrations. There is no real "yellow peril." Poor old China, which has been so long slumbering, is just rousing herself and making arrangements for defence ...
— The Empire of the East • H. B. Montgomery


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