To seize with rapacity, especially food; prey upon; ravage. See ravined.

To subject to rapine or ravage; obtain or take possession of by violence.

To devour with great eagerness; eat with voracity; swallow greedily.

To prey with rapacity; show rapacity.

noun. Applied in Australia to one of the larger crows, Corvus coronoides.

noun. Plunder; rapine; robbery; rapacity; furious violence.

noun. Plunder; prey; food obtained with rapacity.

noun. A bird of the larger species of the genus Corvus, having the feathers of the throat lanceolate and distinct from one another.

noun. A kind of fish. See sea-raven and Hemitripteridæ.

Black as a raven; evenly and glossily or lustrously black: as, raven locks.

noun. A large black passerine bird (Corvus corax), similar to the crow, but larger, and has a harsh, loud call. It is native of the northern parts of Europe, Asia and America, and is noted for its sagacity.

noun. the cormorant.

intransitive verb. To prey with rapacity; to be greedy; to show rapacity.

noun. Rapine; rapacity.

noun. Prey; plunder; food obtained by violence.

adjective. Of the color of the raven; jet black

transitive verb. To obtain or seize by violence.

transitive verb. To devour with great eagerness.

noun. A common name for several, generally large and lustrous black species of birds in the genus Corvus, especially the common raven, Corvus corax.

adjective. Of the color of the raven; jet-black

noun. Rapine; rapacity.

noun. Prey; plunder; food obtained by violence.

verb. To obtain or seize by violence.

verb. To devour with great eagerness.

verb. To prey with rapacity; to be greedy; to show rapacity.

verb. prey on or hunt for

verb. feed greedily

verb. eat greedily

verb. obtain or seize by violence

noun. large black bird with a straight bill and long wedge-shaped tail

"'There is a little gristle,' says Tubervile, 'which is upon the spoone of the brisket, which we call the raven's bone; and I have seen in some places a raven so wont and accustomed to it, that she would never fail to croak and cry for it all the time you were in breaking up of the deer, and would not depart till she had it.'"

English collective nouns  

ravener  ravening  ravenous  ravenously  ravenousness  

raven standard  raven-black  raven-haired  ravened  ravening  

corvine bird  eat  feed  forage  seize  

Cavan  Laven  Sarajevan  craven  graven  

battleground  beanstalk  bobcat  bullfrog  conciliator  

angry clouds  atramentous  batten  be ravenous  black  

ravin  ravine  

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