Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a ravenous manner; with raging voracity.
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- adverb In a
ravenous manner;voraciously
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in the manner of someone who is very hungry
Etymologies
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Examples
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Dyson proposed creating forests of “carbon-eating trees,” engineered to suck carbon more ravenously from the air, and to keep it tied up in thick roots that would decay into topsoil, trapping the carbon.
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Dyson proposed creating forests of “carbon-eating trees,” engineered to suck carbon more ravenously from the air, and to keep it tied up in thick roots that would decay into topsoil, trapping the carbon.
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Dyson proposed creating forests of “carbon-eating trees,” engineered to suck carbon more ravenously from the air, and to keep it tied up in thick roots that would decay into topsoil, trapping the carbon.
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In it, a cop (Steven Weber) saves a grotesquely disfigured young woman (Carrie Fleming) from being murdered, porks her, and abets her in ravenously disemboweling and devouring some cats and people.
Masters of Horror: Dario Argento’s Jenifer « Skid Roche 2008
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In it, a cop (Steven Weber) saves a grotesquely disfigured young woman (Carrie Fleming) from being murdered, porks her, and abets her in ravenously disemboweling and devouring some cats and people.
Masters of Horror: Dario Argento’s Jenifer « Skid Roche 2008
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But these miniature humans will eventually grow and begin ravenously consuming the Earth’s depleted reserves of aux pairs and psychotherapists.
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Roubini is supposedly a notorious "party animal" and he likes the womens a little too "ravenously".
Obama Rolls Out Economic Transition Advisers, Include Warren Buffett, Robert Rubin, Robert Reich 2009
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They also contain a satisfying page count that leaves me wanting more, but not necessarily as "ravenously" as I did with comic books.
Manga Before Flowers – “Manga for Adults” (Part One) | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources 2008
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Adam had been in the Second War; emerged bitter; devoured books "ravenously"; was at work upon a novel: "He had cast off his family.
A Lost World Vidal, Gore 1997
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We took him home and put him in our laundry room, where he ate ravenously, drank a bowl of water, and went to sleep.
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