ravenous

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One's appetite is keener and more ravenous, and the temptation to bolt one's food greater.

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  1. adjective Extremely hungry; voracious.
  2. adjective Rapacious; predatory.
  3. adjective Greedy for gratification: ravenous for power. See Synonyms at voracious.

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  • And when I woke at last--ravenous as usual--she fed me an enormous meal, watching me eat with such pleasure and delight that she might have been the one feasting, instead of I In the following weeks I carefully explained my condition to her, using the example of her brothers to make everything clear. —  FSF - March2006
  • Something ravenous, an instinct that had threatened to burst out before he made his fate. —  EBSCOhost
  • Their kisses became wild, ravenous, and when they drew apart, they were both panting for more. —  Garwood, Julie - Ransom
  • Tom was ravenous--nothing could spoil that boy's appetite Gyps., sure enough," was his comment. —  Ruth Fielding and the Gypsies The Missing Pearl Necklace
  • All morning they idled out-of-doors, exploring the little lanes that led off into the buff-colored hills, returning at noon, ravenous, to lunch in the dining-room of the inn, parting afterward in the corridor, and going to their own rooms to rest and read. —  The Best Short Stories of 1920 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story
 

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insatiable ·  voracious ·  rapacious ·  predatory ·  wolfish ·  hungry ·  bloodthirsty ·  greedy ·  ferocious ·  insatiate ·  frenzied ·  lustful
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Middle English, from Old French ravineux, from raviner, to take by force, from Vulgar Latin *rapīnāre, from Latin rapīna, plunder; see rapine.

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  1. from Old French ravinos, ravinous, ravineus, French ravineux, violent, impetuous, =Italian rapinoso, ravenous, etc., from Middle Latin *rapinosus, from Latin rapina, rapine: see raven. Cf. rapinous.
 

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