Crossword-Solution: RAVENING
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Ravening | p. pr. & vb. n. | of Raven |
| Ravening | n. | Eagerness for plunder; rapacity; extortion. |
| Ravening | a. | Greedily devouring; rapacious; as, ravening wolves. |
We have 12 clues for the answer “RAVENING”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Wanting it all | 2 answers |
| hawklike | 28 answers |
| grabbing | 29 answers |
| ravaging | 29 answers |
| pillaging | 31 answers |
| predatory | 35 answers |
| Acquisitive | 40 answers |
| avaricious | 44 answers |
| Covetous | 47 answers |
| Famished | 58 answers |
| starving | 58 answers |
| selfish | 62 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ATEER
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with RAVENING (5)
The corpse had vanished, not interred in earth, But strewn with dust, as if by one who sought To avert the curse that haunts the unburied dead: Of hound or ravening jackal, not a sign.
But ravening tigers come not nigh, nor breed Of savage lion, nor aconite betrays Its hapless gatherers, nor with sweep so vast Doth the scaled serpent trail his endless coils Along the ground, or wreathe him into spires.
Dared we that ravening terror; heard we its din in our ears; Called on the Gods of our fathers, juggled forlorn with our fears; Sank to our waists in its fury, tossed to the sky like a fleece; Then, when our dread was the greatest, crashed into safety and peace.
And then with ravening shouts, they fell upon the other captive warder, binding him also into a compact helpless missile, and meanwhile getting the engine in gear again for another shot.
But the god changed into a dreadful lion there on the ship, in the bows, and roared loudly: amidships also he showed his wonders and created a shaggy bear which stood up ravening, while on the forepeak was the lion glaring fiercely with scowling brows.
Quotes with RAVENING (3)
O serpent heart hid with a flowering face! Did ever a dragon keep so fair a cave? Beautiful tyrant, feind angelical, dove feather raven, wolvish-ravening lamb! Despised substance of devinest show, just opposite to what thou justly seemest - A dammed saint, an honourable villain!
Certainly the most destructive vice if you like, that a person can have. More than pride, which is supposedly the number one of the cardinal sins - is self pity. Self pity is the worst possible emotion anyone can have. And the most destructive. It is, to slightly paraphrase what Wilde said about hatred, and I think actually hatred's a subset of self pity and not the other way around - ' It destroys everything around it, except itself '. Self pity will destroy relationships, i…
My feeling toward Republicans is like my feeling about sharks: of course they're stupid and vicious. It's in their nature to be mindless, ravening killing machines. It's nothing personal. They don't know any better. Pretty much the only thing you can do about them is stay out of their waters and, if you're unlucky enough to meet with one, shoot it through its rudimentary brain with a spear gun.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (2005).