Dictionary Entry

ravening

ravening is a 8-letter English word with 6 senses as noun and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: of Raven. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

8 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 16 · 6 senses

Definitions

1present participle
of Raven
2noun
Eagerness for plunder; rapacity; extortion.
3adjective
Greedily devouring; rapacious; as, ravening wolves.
4adjective
devouring or craving food in great quantities
"edacious vultures"
"a rapacious appetite"
Synonyms
edacious esurient rapacious ravenous voracious wolfish
5adjective
excessively greedy and grasping
"a rapacious divorcee on the prowl"
"ravening creditors"
Synonyms
rapacious voracious
6adjective
living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey
"a predatory bird"
"the rapacious wolf"
Synonyms
predatory rapacious raptorial vulturine vulturous

Synonyms

edacious esurient rapacious ravenous voracious wolfish predatory raptorial vulturine vulturous

Common word forms

raven ravenings raveningly

Words from these letters

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