1. Devouring or craving food in great quantities
   "ravening vultures";
   - edacious, esurient, rapacious, ravenous, voracious, wolfish
    
2. Living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey
   "ravening wolves";
   - predatory, rapacious, raptorial, vulturine, vulturous
    
3. Excessively greedy and grasping
   "ravening creditors";
   - rapacious, voracious

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"

See also: acquisitive, aggressive, gluttonous

Type of: eat, feed, forage, seize

Encyclopedia: Ravening