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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Greedily predacious; voracious or rapacious.
  2. n. The action of one that ravens.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. Eagerness for plunder; rapacity.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Voracious and greedy.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. Eagerness for plunder; rapacity; extortion.
  2. adj. Greedily devouring; rapacious.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. devouring or craving food in great quantities
  2. adj. excessively greedy and grasping
  3. adj. living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey

Etymologies

  1. Present participle of the obsolete verb raven "to prey". (Wiktionary)

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  • madmouth Mrs. Lynde on college students: "Outwardly they may be as whited sepulchres and inwardly as ravening wolves, that's what" (Anne of the Island). May 26, 2009

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