Ravenousness
81greed — [n] overwhelming desire for more acquisitiveness, avarice, avidity, covetousness, craving, cupidity, eagerness, edacity, esurience, excess, gluttony, gormandizing, graspingness, hunger, indulgence, insatiableness, intemperance, longing,… …
82hunger — [n] appetite for food, other desire ache, appetence, appetency, appetition, a stomach for*, big eyes*, bottomless pit*, craving, desire, emptiness, esurience, eyes for*, famine, famishment, gluttony, greed, greediness, hungriness, longing, lust,… …
83u̯es-2 (*su̯es-) — u̯es 2 (*su̯es ) English meaning: to feast Deutsche Übersetzung: ‘schmausen; aufgeräumt sein” Material: O.Ind. ánu vüvasē “hat aufgezehrt”, vástōḥ “vor dem ravenousness”, Av. vastra “Fresse, muzzle”, vüstrǝm “food”, vüstar… …
84ravenous — [rav′ə nəs] adj. [ME ravynous < OFr ravinos < ravine: see RAVEN2] 1. greedily or wildly hungry; voracious or famished 2. very eager for gratification [ravenous for praise] 3. very rapacious ravenously adv. ravenousness n …
85edacious — adjective devouring or craving food in great quantities edacious vultures a rapacious appetite ravenous as wolves voracious sharks • Syn: ↑esurient, ↑rapacious, ↑ravening, ↑ravenou …
86famished — adjective extremely hungry they were tired and famished for food and sleep a ravenous boy the family was starved and ragged fell into the esurient embrance of a predatory enemy • Syn: ↑ravenous, ↑sharp set, ↑starved, ↑ …
87hungriness — noun 1. a physiological need for food; the consequence of food deprivation • Syn: ↑hunger • Derivationally related forms: ↑hungry, ↑hungry (for: ↑hunger), ↑hunger (for …
88ravening — adjective 1. devouring or craving food in great quantities edacious vultures a rapacious appetite ravenous as wolves voracious sharks • Syn: ↑edacious, ↑esurient, ↑rapacious, ↑ …
89ravenous — adj. 1 very hungry, famished. 2 (of hunger, eagerness, etc., or of an animal) voracious. 3 rapacious. Derivatives: ravenously adv. ravenousness n. Etymology: ME f. OF ravineus (as RAVEN(2)) …
90sharp-set — adjective extremely hungry they were tired and famished for food and sleep a ravenous boy the family was starved and ragged fell into the esurient embrance of a predatory enemy • Syn: ↑famished, ↑ravenous, ↑starved, ↑ …
