ravening

Definition of Ravening in English :

living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey

Example Sentences:
'a predatory bird'
'the rapacious wolf'
'raptorial birds'
'ravening wolves'
'a vulturine taste for offal'

2. rapacious, ravening, voracious

excessively greedy and grasping

Example Sentences:
'a rapacious divorcee on the prowl'
'ravening creditors'
'paying taxes to voracious governments'

devouring or craving food in great quantities

Example Sentences:
'edacious vultures'
'a rapacious appetite'
'ravenous as wolves'
'voracious sharks'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Ravening

adjective

1.

(esp of animals such as wolves) voracious; predatory

noun

2.

voracious or predatory behaviour

adjective

1.

greedily searching for prey

noun

2.

ravin

v. rav·ened, rav·en·ing, rav·ens

v.tr.

1. To consume greedily; devour.

2. To seek or seize as prey or plunder.

v.intr.

1. To seek or seize prey or plunder.

2. To eat ravenously.

n.

Variant of ravin.