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ravenous(dictionary)

ravenous (iou)



ravenous adjective. LME.
[Old French ravinos, -eus, formed as RAVEN verb: see -OUS.]
Given to plundering; very rapacious. LME.
Of appetite, hunger, an animal, etc.: voracious, gluttonous. In pred. use also foll. by of. LME.
Exceedingly hungry, famished. E18.
ravenously adverb LME.
ravenousness noun L16.