1An aggressive and competitive group attack on prey by a number of sharks or piranhas.
(鲨鱼或水虎鱼的)(群体)疯狂捕食
Example sentencesExamples
But to start cutting would have the same effect as a rupture, it would immediately trigger a feeding frenzy in the other scavengers, and the smells of blood and meat might draw more of them.
In September, the crevices in the wall are crammed with hundreds of mating pairs of velvet swimming crabs, exciting swarms of fish into a feeding frenzy.
I have seen sharks in a feeding frenzy, turtles fighting and shoals of fish so large that they blocked out the light from the surface, but this spectacle beat them all.
Showing the press an underwater videotape, Jeng said that in periods of calm water, they observed thousands of crabs swarm out in a feeding frenzy on the sea floor over an area of a few square meters.
Each herbivore entrapment probably triggered a feeding frenzy that resulted in up to a dozen predators being trapped as well, says Van Valkenburgh.
Years later, I found myself swimming backwards through the water while Stuart induced a feeding frenzy of Caribbean reef sharks by free-baiting the water with tuna meat along my path.
He tells us how he literally swam with sharks during a feeding frenzy.
This seemed to trigger the sharks into a feeding frenzy.
1.1An episode of frantic competition or rivalry for something.
〈喻〉激烈竞争;疯狂争抢
the remark caused a media feeding frenzy
这句话引发了媒体的争相报道。
Example sentencesExamples
Such an arrest would not normally arouse the media feeding frenzy that ensued.
He knows a coordinated feeding frenzy of epic proportions has just begun.
Recent shark attacks in Florida have sparked the now customary feeding frenzy in the media.
There was no feeding frenzy, no gnashing of teeth.
The media feeding frenzy will, indeed, be massive.
Definition of feeding frenzy in US English:
feeding frenzy
nounˈfidɪŋ ˌfrɛnzi
1An aggressive and competitive group attack on prey by a number of sharks or piranhas.
(鲨鱼或水虎鱼的)(群体)疯狂捕食
Example sentencesExamples
I have seen sharks in a feeding frenzy, turtles fighting and shoals of fish so large that they blocked out the light from the surface, but this spectacle beat them all.
Showing the press an underwater videotape, Jeng said that in periods of calm water, they observed thousands of crabs swarm out in a feeding frenzy on the sea floor over an area of a few square meters.
But to start cutting would have the same effect as a rupture, it would immediately trigger a feeding frenzy in the other scavengers, and the smells of blood and meat might draw more of them.
Years later, I found myself swimming backwards through the water while Stuart induced a feeding frenzy of Caribbean reef sharks by free-baiting the water with tuna meat along my path.
He tells us how he literally swam with sharks during a feeding frenzy.
Each herbivore entrapment probably triggered a feeding frenzy that resulted in up to a dozen predators being trapped as well, says Van Valkenburgh.
In September, the crevices in the wall are crammed with hundreds of mating pairs of velvet swimming crabs, exciting swarms of fish into a feeding frenzy.
This seemed to trigger the sharks into a feeding frenzy.
1.1An episode of frantic competition or rivalry for something.
〈喻〉激烈竞争;疯狂争抢
his casual remark caused a media feeding-frenzy
这句话引发了媒体的争相报道。
Example sentencesExamples
He knows a coordinated feeding frenzy of epic proportions has just begun.
Such an arrest would not normally arouse the media feeding frenzy that ensued.
There was no feeding frenzy, no gnashing of teeth.
Recent shark attacks in Florida have sparked the now customary feeding frenzy in the media.
The media feeding frenzy will, indeed, be massive.