Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or character of being ravenous; furious avidity; rage for prey.
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- noun excessive desire to eat
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Examples
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His ravenousness reminds us of this species which some bright person brought to our country to promote fish farming, and which is now a pest in our rivers and lakes.
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His ravenousness reminds us of this species which some bright person brought to our country to promote fish farming, and which is now a pest in our rivers and lakes.
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Then it occurred to me that I have not yet savoured the taste of borshch-as-imagined-by-Lisa, despite my repeated expressions of salivation and ravenousness.
Archive 2007-09-01 2007
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I started to pour some into a cereal bowl, but in my current state of ravenousness, a cereal bowl looked roughly the size of a thimble.
Duma Key King, Stephen, 1947- 2008
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For those of us who dash into Queretaro for the "big box" run at Costco, Home Depot etc., we are often faced with both weariness and ravenousness, so we head to whatever is handy.
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Thinking with their penis not for sex as they rampage the Universe while bowing at the phallic altar of ravenousness.
May I be skeptical? 2006
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But whence is it that a certain ravenousness and frenzy drives you in these happy days to pollute yourselves with blood, since you have such an abundance of things necessary for your subsistence?
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The mate with difficulty restrained them in their ravenousness.
Robur the Conqueror 2003
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But the reckoning finally settled down to four, and people would converse learnedly though only about half-seriously about the “attributes” and “tendencies” of different kinds of matter: the impetuosity, ravenousness, and light-contributing nature of Fire, the malleability and passiveness of Water, and so forth.
Rihannsu: The Bloodwing Voyages Diane Duane with Peter Morwood 2000
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But the reckoning finally settled down to four, and people would converse learnedly though only about half-seriously about the “attributes” and “tendencies” of different kinds of matter: the impetuosity, ravenousness, and light-contributing nature of Fire, the malleability and passiveness of Water, and so forth.
Rihannsu: The Bloodwing Voyages Diane Duane with Peter Morwood 2000
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