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单词 ravening
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Definition of ravening in English:

ravening

adjective ˈravənɪŋˈræv(ə)nɪŋ
  • (of a ferocious wild animal) extremely hungry and hunting for prey.

    (猛兽)空腹觅食的

    they turned on each other like ravening wolves

    他们如饿狼一般扑向对方。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • It's a school training day so I am off to Chessington World of Adventures with a ravening horde of birthday-maddened infants.
    • Hung on the walls were beautiful dagger hilts shaped as hawks and dragons, one a ravening wolf with a great diamond clasped in it jaws.
    • He got savaged, for the umpteenth time, by a horde of ravening Republicans.
    • What's very annoying is that as soon as the meals are brought in the rest of the family become like a pack of ravening wolves and will promptly start begging for them.
    • ‘In the evening they came to a water hole,’ one caption read, ‘and there they slaked their ravening thirsts.’
    • Some people can turn into ravening beasts under the light of a full moon but they aren't werewolves.
    • Electricity crawled along the silhouette of the ravening beast, and its viciously pointed beak glinted and was outlined in a shifting corona of spitting sparks.
    • Watching husbands and wives and children all screaming at each other and acting like a ravening pack of spoiled brats for an hour is pretty unedifying stuff.
    • The humble person approaches ravening beasts, and when their gaze rests upon him, their wildness is tamed.
    • For years Martians were imagined as the stuff of nightmares - bug-eyed monsters, ravening warlords or advanced experimenters on humans.
    • Unbidden, desire for her rose within, like some ravening beast.
    • Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.
    • My infant heart would leap at the sound of the lunch bell, and every day I would fall on that school dinner like a ravening wolf.
    • She sees them as ravening beasts that will gnaw holes in the walls and use our credit cards when we aren't looking.
    • People who think porn will turn you into a ravening sexual predator are in denial about the fact that 95% of men have watched pornography.
    • Once we get to dinner time the peace and quiet is shattered by three ravening teenagers all demanding food and demanding it now.
    • Kipling, Burroughs, H.G. Wells, Arthur Conan Doyle, and many lesser authors penned stories full of animal hides and bare feet, struggles for food and battles with ravening beasts.
    • While your legends may beg to differ, we are not mindless, ravening creatures.
    • Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. ~ Matthew 7: 15
    Synonyms
    insatiable, unquenchable, unappeasable, prodigious, uncontrollable, uncontrolled, omnivorous, compulsive, gluttonous, greedy, rapacious

Definition of ravening in US English:

ravening

adjectiveˈrav(ə)niNGˈræv(ə)nɪŋ
  • (of a ferocious wild animal) extremely hungry and hunting for prey.

    (猛兽)空腹觅食的

    they turned on each other like ravening wolves

    他们如饿狼一般扑向对方。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Electricity crawled along the silhouette of the ravening beast, and its viciously pointed beak glinted and was outlined in a shifting corona of spitting sparks.
    • The humble person approaches ravening beasts, and when their gaze rests upon him, their wildness is tamed.
    • Kipling, Burroughs, H.G. Wells, Arthur Conan Doyle, and many lesser authors penned stories full of animal hides and bare feet, struggles for food and battles with ravening beasts.
    • Hung on the walls were beautiful dagger hilts shaped as hawks and dragons, one a ravening wolf with a great diamond clasped in it jaws.
    • Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. ~ Matthew 7: 15
    • What's very annoying is that as soon as the meals are brought in the rest of the family become like a pack of ravening wolves and will promptly start begging for them.
    • Once we get to dinner time the peace and quiet is shattered by three ravening teenagers all demanding food and demanding it now.
    • For years Martians were imagined as the stuff of nightmares - bug-eyed monsters, ravening warlords or advanced experimenters on humans.
    • It's a school training day so I am off to Chessington World of Adventures with a ravening horde of birthday-maddened infants.
    • My infant heart would leap at the sound of the lunch bell, and every day I would fall on that school dinner like a ravening wolf.
    • Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.
    • While your legends may beg to differ, we are not mindless, ravening creatures.
    • Unbidden, desire for her rose within, like some ravening beast.
    • ‘In the evening they came to a water hole,’ one caption read, ‘and there they slaked their ravening thirsts.’
    • Some people can turn into ravening beasts under the light of a full moon but they aren't werewolves.
    • People who think porn will turn you into a ravening sexual predator are in denial about the fact that 95% of men have watched pornography.
    • Watching husbands and wives and children all screaming at each other and acting like a ravening pack of spoiled brats for an hour is pretty unedifying stuff.
    • She sees them as ravening beasts that will gnaw holes in the walls and use our credit cards when we aren't looking.
    • He got savaged, for the umpteenth time, by a horde of ravening Republicans.
    Synonyms
    insatiable, unquenchable, unappeasable, prodigious, uncontrollable, uncontrolled, omnivorous, compulsive, gluttonous, greedy, rapacious
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