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

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ravening

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ravening

IPA(Pronunciation)

/ˈɹævənɪŋ/

archaic literary

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

Japanese Meaning

（動物による）捕食行為、獲物をむさぼるような食欲 / 略奪や強奪に対する貪欲さ、むさぼるような欲求

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The ravening of wolves in the valley reduced the once-thriving flocks to shadows by morning.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

谷での狼の捕食により、かつて繁栄していた羊の群れは朝までに影のようになってしまった。

Sense（1）

(archaic, literary) Predation (by an animal); voracious eating or consumption.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

Sense（2）

Eagerness for plunder; rapacity; extortion.

We must kyll diuelish pryde, furious angre, insatiable couetousnes, filthy lucre, stinking lechery, deadly hatred & malice, foxy wilines, woluish rauening & deuouring, and al other vnreasonable lustes and desires of the fleshe.

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ravenings

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