English Dictionary

raven

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈɹævən/

動詞

古語 他動詞 自動詞

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

日本語の意味

暴力によって強奪する / 非常に熱心に食い尽くす / 欲深く襲う、略奪する

At dawn the raiders raven the grain stores, leaving the villagers hungry.

夜明けに襲撃者たちは穀物倉を略奪して村人たちを飢えさせる。

意味（1）

(transitive, archaic) To obtain or seize by violence.

意味（2）

(transitive) To devour with great eagerness.

I refer to the danger of keeping a dog of this nature and disposition in a bedroom, where it can spring out ravening on anyone who enters.

意味（3）

(transitive) To prey on with rapacity.

The raven is both a scavenger, who ravens a dead animal almost like a vulture, and a bird of prey, who commonly ravens to catch a rodent.

意味（4）

(intransitive) To show rapacity; to be greedy (for something).

[…] because hogs are commonly rauening for their meat, more then other cattel, it is meet therefore to haue them ringed, or else they wil doe much hurt in digging and turning vp corne fieldes […]

ravens （ present singular third-person ）

ravening （ participle present ）

ravened （ participle past ）

ravened （ past ）