See ravenous in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"expansion": "Middle English ravenous",
"name": "inh"
},
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"expansion": "Old French ravineus",
"name": "der"
}
],
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]
},
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"word": "voracious"
}
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"ref": "1921, Ben Travers, chapter 5, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC:",
"text": "The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite. There is something humiliating about it.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1970, Roald Dahl, Fantastic Mr. Fox, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, page 58:",
"text": "You must remember no one had eaten a thing for several days. They were ravenous. So for a while there was no conversation at all. There was only the sound of crunching and chewing as the animals attacked the succulent food.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Biotics: Life as a Biotic Codex entry:",
"text": "Biotics possess extraordinary abilities, but they must live with minor inconveniences. The most obvious issue is getting adequate nutrition. Creating biotic mass effects takes such a toll on metabolism that active biotics develop ravenous appetites. The standard Alliance combat ration for a soldier is 3000 calories per day; biotics are given 4500, as well as a canteen of potent energy drink for quick refreshment after hard combat.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2023 February 8, Greg Morse, “Crossing the border... by Sleeper”, in RAIL, number 976, page 43:",
"text": "Ravenous, I order one more wine and a selection of cheese and biscuits.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Very hungry."
],
"links": [
[
"hungry",
"hungry"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
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"examples": [
{
"ref": "1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “ch. IX, Working Aristocracy”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book III (The Modern Worker):",
"text": "Supply-and-demand? One begins to be weary of such work. Leave all to egoism, to ravenous greed of money, of pleasure, of applause: — it is the Gospel of Despair!",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1986, John le Carré, A Perfect Spy:",
"text": "Mrs. Michael turned out to be a ravenous, fast-fading woman in a slashed skirt and a low blouse over an unappetising chest. While her husband did things in his shed, where he appeared to live, Pym inexpertly mixed the Yorkshire pudding and fought off her embraces...",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2003, “Weak and Powerless”, performed by A Perfect Circle:",
"text": "Tilling my own grave to keep me level\nJam another dragon down the hole\nDigging to the rhythm and the echo of a solitary siren\nOne that pushes me along and leaves me so\nDesperate and ravenous\nI'm so weak and powerless\nOver you",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Grasping; characterized by strong desires."
],
"links": [
[
"Grasping",
"grasping"
],
[
"desire",
"desire"
]
]
}
],
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{
"ipa": "/ˈɹævənəs/"
},
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],
"synonyms": [
{
"tags": [
"colloquial",
"figuratively"
],
"word": "starving"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "br",
"lang": "Breton",
"sense": "very hungry",
"word": "lontek"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "lákom",
"sense": "very hungry",
"word": "ла́ком"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "very hungry",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "famèlic"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "very hungry",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "voraç"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "very hungry",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "vyhladovělý"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "very hungry",
"word": "uitgehongerd"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "very hungry",
"word": "englutema"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "very hungry",
"word": "sudennälkäinen"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "very hungry",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "affamé"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "very hungry",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "vorace"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "very hungry",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "esfameado"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "very hungry",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "famento"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "mʒarcveluri",
"sense": "very hungry",
"word": "მძარცველური"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "very hungry",
"word": "gefräßig"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "very hungry",
"word": "ausgehungert"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "very hungry",
"word": "heißhungrig"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "limasménos",
"sense": "very hungry",
"word": "λιμασμένος"
},
{
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "próspeinos",
"sense": "very hungry",
"word": "πρόσπεινος"
},
{
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "oxúpeinos",
"sense": "very hungry",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ὀξύπεινος"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "very hungry",
"word": "falánk"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "very hungry",
"word": "farkaséhes"
},
{
"code": "io",
"lang": "Ido",
"sense": "very hungry",
"word": "devorema"
},
{
"code": "ia",
"lang": "Interlingua",
"sense": "very hungry",
"word": "devorante"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "very hungry",
"word": "cíocrach"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "very hungry",
"word": "aimirneach"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "very hungry",
"word": "gionach"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "very hungry",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "famelico"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "very hungry",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "affamato"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "very hungry",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "vorace"
},
{
"code": "kls",
"lang": "Kalasha",
"sense": "very hungry",
"word": "yazid"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "very hungry",
"word": "vorax"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "very hungry",
"word": "warawara"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "very hungry",
"word": "whakapakari"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "very hungry",
"word": "pakaroa"
},
{
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "very hungry",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "famelic"
},
{
"code": "ang",
"lang": "Old English",
"sense": "very hungry",
"word": "grǣdiġ"
},
{
"code": "ota",
"lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
"roman": "obur",
"sense": "very hungry",
"word": "اوبور"
},
{
"code": "ota",
"lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
"roman": "kursaksız",
"sense": "very hungry",
"word": "قورساقسز"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "very hungry",
"word": "zachłanny"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "very hungry",
"word": "żarłoczny"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "very hungry",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "faminto"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "very hungry",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "famélico"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "very hungry",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "voraz"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "very hungry",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ávido"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "very hungry",
"word": "vorace"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "very hungry",
"tags": [
"masculine",
"neuter"
],
"word": "flămând"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "izgolodavšijsja",
"sense": "very hungry",
"word": "изголодавшийся"
},
{
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "very hungry",
"word": "gionach"
},
{
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "very hungry",
"word": "craosach"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "very hungry",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic"
],
"word": "халапљив"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "very hungry",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic"
],
"word": "прождрљив"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "very hungry",
"tags": [
"Roman"
],
"word": "halapljiv"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "very hungry",
"tags": [
"Roman"
],
"word": "proždrljiv"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "very hungry",
"word": "famélico"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "very hungry",
"word": "svulten"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "nenažérlyvyj",
"sense": "very hungry",
"word": "ненаже́рливий"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "hišten",
"sense": "eager for prey or gratification",
"word": "хищен"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "grabitelski",
"sense": "eager for prey or gratification",
"word": "грабителски"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "eager for prey or gratification",
"word": "ahne"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "eager for prey or gratification",
"word": "avide"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "eager for prey or gratification",
"word": "ávido"
},
{
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "eager for prey or gratification",
"word": "gionach"
}
],
"word": "ravenous"
}
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