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ravening
[rav-uh-ning] 
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famished
[fam-isht]
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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | starving |
| Synonyms: | could eat a horse, dog-hungry, empty, flying light, having the munchies, hollow, hungering, hungry, ravening, ravenous, starved, starved to death, voracious |
| Antonyms: | full, sated, satiated, satisfied |
| Main Entry: | glut |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | choke; oversupply |
| Synonyms: | burden, clog, cloy, congest, cram, deluge, devour, feast, fill, flood, gorge, hog, inundate, jade, load, make a pig of, overfeed, overload, overstock, overwhelm, pack*, pall, raven, sate, satiate, saturate, stuff, surfeit, wolf* |
| Antonyms: | abstain, diet, fast, moderate, reduce, repress, suppress |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | gluttonous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | voracious |
| Synonyms: | covetous, devouring, edacious, gorging, gourmandizing, greedy, gross, hoggish, insatiable, never full, omnivorous, piggish, piggy, prodigious, rapacious, ravening, ravenous, sating, starved, starving, unquenchable, wolfish |
| Main Entry: | greedy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | desiring excessively |
| Synonyms: | acquisitive, avaricious, avid, carnivorous, close, close-fisted, covetous, craving, desirous, devouring, eager, edacious, esurient, gluttonous, gobbling, gormandizing, grabby, grasping, grudging, gulping, guzzling, hoggish, hungry, impatient, insatiable, insatiate, intemperate, itchy, miserly, niggardly, omnivorous, parsimonious, pennypinching, penurious, piggish, prehensile, rapacious, ravening, ravenous, selfish, stingy, swinish, tight*, tight-fisted, voracious |
| Antonyms: | abstemious, benevolent, charitable, extravagant, generous, liberal, philanthropic |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | predatory |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | eating, destroying for sustenance or without conscience |
| Synonyms: | bloodthirsty, carnivorous, depredatory, despoiling, greedy, hungry, hunting, marauding, pillaging, plundering, predacious, predative, preying, rapacious, raptorial, ravaging, ravening, thieving, voracious, vulturine, vulturous, wolfish |
| Main Entry: | rapacious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | plundering |
| Synonyms: | avaricious, ferocious, furious, greedy, marauding, murderous, predatory, preying, ravening, ravenous, savage, voracious |
| Main Entry: | ravenous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very hungry; desirous |
| Synonyms: | avaricious, could eat a horse, covetous, devouring, edacious, empty, famished, ferocious, gluttonous, grasping, greedy, insatiable, insatiate, omnivorous, predatory, rapacious, ravening, starved, starved to death, starving, voracious, wolfish |
| Antonyms: | full, satisfied |
| Main Entry: | savage |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | cruel, vicious |
| Synonyms: | atrocious, barbarous, beastly, bestial, bloodthirsty, bloody, brutal, brutish, cold-blooded, crazed, demoniac, destructive, devilish, diabolical, fell, feral, ferine, ferocious, fierce, frantic, furious, grim, harsh, heartless, hellish, infernal, inhuman, inhumane, malevolent, malicious, merciless, murderous, pitiless, rabid, raging, rapacious, ravening, relentless, remorseless, ruthless, sadistic, truculent, unrelenting, violent, wolfish |
| Antonyms: | benign, kind, nice |
| Main Entry: | voracious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very hungry, greedy |
| Synonyms: | avid, covetous, devouring, dog-hungry, edacious, empty, gluttonous, gorging, grasping, gross, insatiable, omnivorous, piggy, prodigious, rapacious, ravening, ravenous, sating, starved, starved to death, starving, uncontrolled, unquenchable |
| Antonyms: | quenched, satisfied |
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