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ravenousness



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You’ll be surprised how quickly you burn energy, and how suddenly ravenousness can take over your body.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 25, 2021

The ravenousness in so many of the faces in the crowd at Altamont was never exclusive to the counterculture.

From Slate ● Jul. 24, 2018

Apart from Fenfang's genuine love of food, this is what the ravenousness of the title is about.

From Time Magazine Archive

Then indulgence feeds passion, and deeper draughts become necessary in order to produce the same effects, and cravings, once allowed free play, grow in ravenousness, while their pabulum steadily loses its power to satisfy.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes by Alexander Maclaren

Rapā′ciousness, Rapac′ity, the quality of being rapacious: ravenousness: extortion.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various


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