ravening

  • (s) 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
    rapacious, vulturine, vulturous, predatory, raptorial,
  • (s) excessively greedy and grasping
    • a rapacious divorcee on the prowl
    • ravening creditors
    • paying taxes to voracious governments
    voracious, rapacious,
  • (s) devouring or craving food in great quantities
    • edacious vultures
    • a rapacious appetite
    • ravenous as wolves
    • voracious sharks
    edacious, ravenous, voracious, wolfish, esurient, rapacious,

Synonyms

rapacious vulturine vulturous predatory raptorial voracious edacious ravenous wolfish esurient

Words of close approximity