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词汇 ravenous
释义 ravenous
adjective
uk /ˈræv.ən.əs/ us /ˈræv.ən.əs/
extremely hungry: 极其饥饿的
I'm ravenous - where's supper?我饿坏了——晚饭在哪里?
Growing boys have ravenous appetites.正在长身体的男孩子饭量很大。
Synonyms
famishedinformal
hungry(NEEDING FOOD)
starvedmainly USinformal
starving(NO FOOD)informal
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

wanting or needing food
hungryBy dinner time we all felt really hungry.
starvingIs there anything to eat? I'm starving!
starvedUSHe ate so quickly, like he was starved.
famishedAfter that long workout, I'm absolutely famished.
ravenousHe's going through a growth spurt, so he's just ravenous.
wanting something very much or wanting a lot of something:
a ravenous appetite for cash
a stage star who was ravenous for attention
Desperate dieters often skimp on lunch, then become ravenous and binge all evening.
I think they are afraid that the bears will be ravenous and ready to eat people.
Ravenous sharks encircle the dead whale.
Picture-taking parents closed in on the graduates like ravenous paparazzi.
Under his leadership, the company became a ravenous acquirer, absorbing 15 other companies in six years.
We are all ravenous for information.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Hungry & thirsty
anorectic
anorexigenic
anti-hunger
appetite
be gaspingidiom
famished
food poverty
hunger
hunger striker
hungrily
parched
smack your lipsidiom
starvation
starved
thirst
thirstily
thirsty
underfed
undernourished
voracity

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ravenous | American Dictionary


ravenous
adjective[ not gradable ]
us/ˈræv·ə·nəs/
extremely hungry:
We were ravenous after hiking all day.

Examples of ravenous


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As a result, people today have a ravenous hunger for timely, accurate, and lively news, and the media are rushing to satisfy it.
When young boys took to the ice, their first encounter was frequently a perilous one, eye to eye with some sort of brutish, and invariably ravenous, bear.
In fact, it is a ravenous wolf of a clause which strikes at the heart of what is set out in clause 15.
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It represents a reversal from control to the letting loose in this country of a pack of ravenous wolves.
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We are now a ravenous pool of consumerism for the products of other countries.
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It is possibly akin to feeding a ravenous man with a peppercorn.
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He had a fire of ravenous hunger in his stomach, and he drank all the waters of the sea to quell it.
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Behind the other door is a ravenous tiger.
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This turns out to be an eight-foot-tall warrior, complete with fangs, claws, superhuman strength and speed, and a ravenous appetite.
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Possessing a great love of food and a ravenous appetite, he enjoys combat and sees it much like a game.
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He is known to have a ravenous appetite and will eat almost anything.
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No government will allow the infected airliner to land, leaving the survivors stranded in the sky with their ravenous tormentors.
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Ravenous feeders, they will eat any living thing they find.
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They are cunning and ravenous, but reproduce slowly in the wild.
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It concerns a group of people on a remote country manor who discover that one of their numbers is a ravenous werewolf.
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