RAVENOUS | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary

Meaning of ravenous in English

(Definition of ravenous from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
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Examples of ravenous

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As a result, people today have a ravenous hunger for timely, accurate, and lively news, and the media are rushing to satisfy it.
When young boys took to the ice, their first encounter was frequently a perilous one, eye to eye with some sort of brutish, and invariably ravenous, bear.
In fact, it is a ravenous wolf of a clause which strikes at the heart of what is set out in clause 15.
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It represents a reversal from control to the letting loose in this country of a pack of ravenous wolves.
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We are now a ravenous pool of consumerism for the products of other countries.
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It is possibly akin to feeding a ravenous man with a peppercorn.
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He had a fire of ravenous hunger in his stomach, and he drank all the waters of the sea to quell it.
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Behind the other door is a ravenous tiger.
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This turns out to be an eight-foot-tall warrior, complete with fangs, claws, superhuman strength and speed, and a ravenous appetite.
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Possessing a great love of food and a ravenous appetite, he enjoys combat and sees it much like a game.
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He is known to have a ravenous appetite and will eat almost anything.
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No government will allow the infected airliner to land, leaving the survivors stranded in the sky with their ravenous tormentors.
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Ravenous feeders, they will eat any living thing they find.
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They are cunning and ravenous, but reproduce slowly in the wild.
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It concerns a group of people on a remote country manor who discover that one of their numbers is a ravenous werewolf.
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Translations of ravenous

in Chinese (Traditional)
極其饑餓的…
in Chinese (Simplified)
极其饥饿的…
in Spanish
hambriento, famélico, voraz…
in Portuguese
esfomeado, faminto…
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飢えた, 腹ぺこの…
çok acıkmış, kurt gibi aç, kurt gibi acıkmış…
vorace…
afamat…
uitgehongerd…
hundesulten…
utsvulten…
lapar…
heißhungrig…
skrubbsulten…
дуже голодний, зголоднілий…
голодный как волк…
نَهِم…
vyhladovělý…
rakus…
ซึ่งตะกละมาก…
đói…
wygłodniały, zgłodniały…
배가 무척 고픈…
affamato, vorace…
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