| 单词 | ravening |
| 释义 | ravening (once / 8710 pages) adj Someone who's ravening is ferociously hungry, like a wild animal. A ravening monster in a horror film hunts its prey for food. While a ravening wolf is fierce and brutal in its hunger, you can also use ravening to describe someone who acts wild or brutish in other ways. A businessman's ravening greed is so savage that he doesn't care who's hurt in his pursuit of money. A crowd of ravening children might dive for candy beneath a piñata, shoving each other out of the way. A now obsolete verb, raven, or "prey, plunder, or devour," is the root of ravenous. WORD FAMILYraven: ravened, ravening, ravens USAGE EXAMPLESMuch has been written about how the GOP's corrosive politics paved the way for ravening Trumpism. US News(Dec 23, 2015) First, by almost single handedly keeping the ravening media beast fed, he creates space for other elephants to make their way through the primary jungle. US News(Aug 06, 2015) “A ravening wolf carried her off. A sudden sickness took her. Tell them what you will, but never speak of dragons.” George R. R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons(2011) 1adj excessively greedy and grasping ravening creditors Syn rapacious, voracious acquisitive eager to acquire and possess things especially material possessions or ideas 2adj devouring or craving food in great quantities Syn edacious, esurient, rapacious, ravenous, voracious, wolfish gluttonous given to excess in consumption of especially food or drink 3adj living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey ravening wolves Syn predatory, rapacious, raptorial, vulturine, vulturous aggressive having or showing determination and energetic pursuit of your ends |
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