ravening

Betekenis (Engels)

Adj

1. Voracious and greedy.
2. (archaic) Subject to the voracity of a predator.

Noun

1. (archaic, literary) Predation (by an animal); voracious eating or consumption.
2. Eagerness for plunder; rapacity; extortion.

Synoniemen

rapacious

voracious

predatory

ravenous

raptorial

vulturous

rapacity

predatoriness

edacious

esurient

famishing

predacious

rapaciousness

wolfish

predacity

vulturine

exceedingly hungry

grasping

fierce

curmudgeon

predaceous

hungry

greedy

ravishing

starveling

Vertalingen

rapace

vorace

voraç

rapaç

voraz

verschlingend

αρπακτικός

αρπακτικότης

αρπακτικότητα

λιμασμένος

rapace

vorace

predador

Uitgesproken als (IPA)

/ˈɹævənɪŋ/

Etymologie (Engels)

Present participle of the obsolete verb raven (“to prey”).