1. Large black bird with a straight bill and long wedge-shaped tail
   "A raven perched ominously on the church steeple";
   - Corvus corax

1. Intensely black and lustrous, like a raven's feathers
   "Her raven tresses"; "His raven beard""

1. Eat greedily
   "The hungry dogs ravened their food";
   - devour, guttle [rare], pig [informal]
    
2. Feed greedily
   "The lions ravened the bodies"
    
3. Hunt for as food
   "The wolves ravened through the forest for prey";
   - prey, predate[2]
    
4. Obtain or seize by violence
   "The invaders ravened the town's resources"

Derived forms: ravens, ravening, ravened

Type of: corvine bird, eat, feed, forage, seize

Part of: Corvus, genus Corvus

Encyclopedia: Raven, Nebraska