Definition of "ravening" in English

adjective

1. Voracious and greedy.

   • There is no shortage of ravening friends and relatives on the day one hits the lottery.
   • 1555, Richard Eden (translator), The Decades of the Newe Worlde or West India by Pietro Martire d’Anghiera, London: Edward Sutton, Decade 3, Book 5, p. 116, They eate mans fleshe but seldome, bycause they meete not oftentymes with strangiers, except they goo foorth of theyr owne dominions with a mayne army of purpose to hunt for men, when theyr rauenynge appetite pricketh them forwarde.

2. (archaic) Subject to the voracity of a predator.

noun

1. (archaic, literary) Predation (by an animal); voracious eating or consumption.

2. Eagerness for plunder; rapacity; extortion.