Definition of "ravenous" []

• Extremely hungry; voracious. (adjective)
• Rapacious; predatory. (adjective)
• Greedy for gratification: ravenous for power. See Synonyms at voracious. (adjective)

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• "He’d been hungry himself before, but he’d never understood the term ravenous until he watched her eat."
• "With bass leaving their beds and ravenous from the rigors of spawning, now's the time to cast out a topwater popper and get ready for some explosive action."
• "Or it may be meant of Egypt itself, which had been to Israel a house of bondage and therefore a land of trouble and anguish, and which abounded in ravenous and venomous creatures."