ravening

a. 贪婪地捕食的, 掠食的

发音

US /ˈɹævənɪŋ/

词形变化

ravenings 复数 ravenings more ravening 比较级 most ravening 最高级

别名

rauening

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

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

    古体 文学
  2. 2.

    Eagerness for plunder; rapacity; extortion.

adj.
  1. 1.

    Voracious and greedy.

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

    1555, Richard Eden (translator), The Decades of the Newe Worlde or West India by Pietro Martire d’Anghiera, London: Edward Sutton, Decade 3, Book 5, p. 116, They eate mans fleshe but seldome, bycause they meete not oftentymes with strangiers, except they goo foorth of theyr owne dominions with a mayne army of purpose to hunt for men, when theyr rauenynge appetite pricketh them forwarde.

  2. 2.

    Subject to the voracity of a predator.

    古体

词汇关系

形容词

同义词 10

predatory ravenous voracious rapacious edacious esurient raptorial vulturine vulturous wolfish

近义相关 3

aggressive acquisitive gluttonous

词源

Present participle of the obsolete verb raven (“to prey”).

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