(countable) Any of several, generally large and lustrous black species of birds in the genus Corvus, especially the common raven, Corvus corax. / A jet-black colour.

Of the color of the raven; jet-black

Rapine; rapacity. / Prey; plunder; food obtained by violence.

(transitive, archaic) To obtain or seize by violence. / (transitive) To devour with great eagerness. / (transitive) To prey on with rapacity.

plural of ravener

(obsolete) One who, or that which, ravens or plunders. / (obsolete) A bird of prey.

A surname. / A female given name from English for a girl with raven hair, used since the 1970s. / A male given name

Voracious and greedy. / (archaic) Subject to the voracity of a predator.

(archaic, literary) Predation (by an animal); voracious eating or consumption. / Eagerness for plunder; rapacity; extortion.

simple past tense and past participle of raven