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Definition of 'ravenous'English
Adjective
( en-adj)
Very hungry.
* {{quote-book|year=1922|author=(Ben Travers)
|chapter=5|title= A Cuckoo in the Nest
|passage=The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite. There is something humiliating about it.}}
(rfc-sense) Eager for prey or gratification.
* 1843 , (Thomas Carlyle), '', book 3, ch. IX, ''Working Aristocracy
- Supply-and-demand? One begins to be weary of such work. Leave all to egoism, to ravenous greed of money, of pleasure, of applause: — it is the Gospel of Despair!
Synonyms
* starving (qualifier)
* See also
See also
* voracious
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