ravening

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Voracious and greedy.

   “There is no shortage of ravening friends and relatives on the day one hits the lottery.”

2. sıfat Subject to the voracity of a predator.

   “To be the strongers rauening pray the weaker did begin, And might went for oppressed right […]”

3. isim Predation (by an animal); voracious eating or consumption.

   “Some rather deuoure than eate their meate non other wyse than suche as be ledde in to prison. This rauenyng and deuourynge is appropred to theues.”

4. isim Eagerness for plunder; rapacity; extortion.

   “We must kyll diuelish pryde, furious angre, insatiable couetousnes, filthy lucre, stinking lechery, deadly hatred & malice, foxy wilines, woluish rauening & deuouring, and al other vnreasonable lustes and desires of the fleshe.”