ravening

ravening
    adj 1: living by preying on other animals especially by catching
           living prey; "a predatory bird"; "the rapacious wolf";
           "raptorial birds"; "ravening wolves"; "a vulturine taste
           for offal" [syn: {predatory}, {rapacious}, {raptorial},
           {ravening}, {vulturine}, {vulturous}]
    2: excessively greedy and grasping; "a rapacious divorcee on the
       prowl"; "ravening creditors"; "paying taxes to voracious
       governments" [syn: {rapacious}, {ravening}, {voracious}]
    3: devouring or craving food in great quantities; "edacious
       vultures"; "a rapacious appetite"; "ravenous as wolves";
       "voracious sharks" [syn: {edacious}, {esurient}, {rapacious},
       {ravening}, {ravenous}, {voracious}, {wolfish}]
    

Ravening \Rav"en*ing\, n.
   Eagerness for plunder; rapacity; extortion. --Luke xi. 39.
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Ravening \Rav"en*ing\, a.
   Greedily devouring; rapacious; as, ravening wolves. --
   {Rav"en*ing*ly}, adv.
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Raven \Rav"en\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Ravened} (r[a^]v"'nd); p.
   pr. & vb. n. {Ravening}.] [Written also ravin, and ravine.]
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   1. To obtain or seize by violence. --Hakewill.
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   2. To devour with great eagerness.
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            Like rats that ravin down their proper bane. --Shak.
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