ravening
Meaning of ravening
- (of a ferocious wild animal) extremely hungry and hunting for prey.
they turned on each other like ravening wolves
- (of a wild animal) hunt voraciously for prey.
fierce lions went ravening to and fro
late 15th century (in the sense ‘take as spoil’): from Old French raviner, originally ‘to ravage’, based on Latin rapina ‘pillage’.
Information about ravening
- The plural form of ravening is: ravenings.
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Hyphenation of ravening
raven-ing
- It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
- ravening is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
ravening synonyms
Meaning predatory:
predatory, rapacious, raptorial, vulturine, vulturous
Meaning rapacious:
Meaning edacious:
edacious, esurient, rapacious, ravenous, voracious, wolfish
Words that rhyme with ravening
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