RAVENING

• (adj.) devouring or craving food in great quantities

  "edacious vultures", "a rapacious appetite", "ravenous as wolves", "voracious sharks"

  synonyms : edacious , esurient , rapacious , ravenous , voracious , wolfish

• (adj.) excessively greedy and grasping

  "a rapacious divorcee on the prowl", "ravening creditors", "paying taxes to voracious governments"

  synonyms : rapacious , voracious

• (adj.) 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"

  synonyms : predatory , rapacious , raptorial , vulturine , vulturous

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