Usually means: Ferociously devouring; aggressively greedy, voracious.
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  1. ravening: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. ravening: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. ravening: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. ravening: Collins English Dictionary
  5. ravening: Vocabulary.com
  6. ravening: Wordnik
  7. ravening: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. ravening: Wiktionary
  9. ravening: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. ravening: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. ravening: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Ravening, ravening: Dictionary.com
  13. ravening: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Ravening: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. ravening: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. ravening: Rhymezone
  17. Ravening: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. ravening: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. ravening: Free Dictionary
  20. ravening: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. ravening: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. ravening: Encyclopedia

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  1. Ravening: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See raven as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Voracious and greedy.
adjective:  (archaic) Subject to the voracity of a predator.
noun:  (archaic, literary) Predation (by an animal); voracious eating or consumption.
noun:  Eagerness for plunder; rapacity; extortion.

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