ravenous
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈɹævənəs/
ravenous
- Very hungry.
- Grasping; characterized by strong desires.
- 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present (book), book 3, ch. IX, Working Aristocracy
- Supply-and-demand? One begins to be weary of such work. Leave all to egoism, to ravenous greed of money, of pleasure, of applause: — it is the Gospel of Despair!
- 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present (book), book 3, ch. IX, Working Aristocracy
- starving (colloquial)
- See also Thesaurus:voracious
- French: affamé, vorace
- German: gefräßig, ausgehungert, heißhungrig
- Italian: famelico, affamato
- Portuguese: faminto
- Russian: изголодавшийся
- Spanish: famélico
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