| n. | 1. | Eagerness for plunder; rapacity; extortion. |
| a. | 1. | Greedily devouring; rapacious; |
| Adj. | 1. | ravening - living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey; "a predatory bird"; "the rapacious wolf"; "raptorial birds"; "ravening wolves"; "a vulturine taste for offal" |
| 2. | ravening - excessively greedy and grasping; "a rapacious divorcee on the prowl"; "ravening creditors"; "paying taxes to voracious governments" | |
| 3. | ravening - devouring or craving food in great quantities; "edacious vultures"; "a rapacious appetite"; "ravenous as wolves"; "voracious sharks" |