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Definitions: Ravening |
RaveningAdjective1. Living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey; "a predatory bird"; "the rapacious wolf"; "raptorial birds"; "ravening wolves"; "a vulturine taste for offal". 2. Excessively greedy and grasping; "a rapacious divorcee on the prowl"; "ravening creditors"; "paying taxes to voracious governments". 3. Devouring or craving food in great quantities; "edacious vultures"; "a rapacious appetite"; "ravenous as wolves"; "voracious sharks". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "ravening" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1374. (references) |
Synonyms: RaveningSynonyms: edacious (adj), esurient (adj), predatory (adj), rapacious (adj), raptorial (adj), ravenous (adj), voracious (adj), vulturine (adj), vulturous (adj), wolfish (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Desire | Adjective: desirous; desiring; Verb: inclined; (willing); partial to; fain, wishful, optative; anxious, wistful, curious; at a loss for, sedulous, solicitous. craving, hungry, sharp-set, peckish, ravening, with an empty stomach, esurient, lickerish, thirsty, athirst, parched with thirst, pinched with hunger, famished, dry, drouthy; hungry as a hunter, hungry as a hawk, hungry as a horse, hungry as a church mouse, hungry as a bear. |
Violence | Turbulent; disorderly; blustering, raging; Verb: troublous, riotous; tumultuary, tumultuous; obstreperous, uproarious; extravagant; unmitigated; ravening, inextinguishable, tameless; frenzied; (insane). desperate; (rash); infuriate, furious, outrageous, frantic, hysteric, in hysterics. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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| "Ravening" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 61.54% of the time. "Ravening" is used about 13 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 61.54% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 30.77% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Noun (singular) | 7.69% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 13 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "ravening": predatory rapacious raptorial ravening vulturine vulturous. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
ravening | 9 |
horde ravening | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "ravening"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | طماع (avid, grasping, greedy, kidnapper, predatory, pushing, rapacious), طامع (avid, covetous, greedy), جشع (an itching palm, avarice, avaricious, avidity, cupidity, grasping, greed, greedy, mercenary, predatory, rapacious, rapacity). (various references) | |
French | rapace (rapacious, ravenous), vorace (ravenous). (various references) | |
German | verschlingend (devouring, engulfing, gobbling, wolfing), gefräßig (gluttonous, gluttonously, greedy, gutsy, piggish, ravenous, ravenously, voracious). (various references) | |
Greek | λιμασμένοσ (starveling), αρπακτικόσ (curmudgeon, grasping, predaceous, predacious, predatory, rapacious, raptorial, ravenous, ravishing, vulturous), αρπακτικότησ (predacity, predatoriness, rapaciousness, rapacity), αρπακτικότητα (predacity, predatoriness, rapaciousness, rapacity). (various references) | |
Hungarian | ragadozó (carnivorous, lupine, predacious, predator, predatory, rapacious, raptorial, vulturous), falánk (Edacious, esurient, gluttonous, gourmand, hoggish, piggish, piggy, ravenous, voracious). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | aveningray.(various references) | |
Thai | ตะกละตะกลาม. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Matthew Chapter 7, Verse 15 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Prosecete de apo twn yeudoprofhtwn oitineV ercontai proV umaV en endumasin probatwn eswqen de eisin lukoi arpageV |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Adtendite a falsis prophetis qui veniunt ad vos in vestimentis ovium intrinsecus autem sunt lupi rapaces |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | Warnieð eow wið leasan witegenþe cumeð to eow on sceapenekertlen. ac hyo beoð innenan reafiendewulfas. |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Be ye war of fals prophetis, that comen to you in clothingis of scheep, but withynneforth thei ben as wolues of raueyn; |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | Beware of false Prophetes which come to you in shepes clothinge but inwardly they are ravenynge wolves. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Be on the watch for false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inside they are cruel wolves. |
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| Language | Matthew Chapter 7, Verse 15 |
| Bulgarian | Пазете се от лъжливите пророци, които дохождат при вас с овчи дрехи, а отвътре са вълци грабители. |
| Cebuano | ¶ "Kinahanglan magbantay kamo sa mga mini nga profeta nga moanha kaninyo nga managsapot sa pagka-karnero apan diay sa sulod nila sila mga lobo nga manonukob. |
| Chinese | 們 要 防 備 假 先 知 ． 他 們 到 們 這 裡 來 、 外 面 披 著 羊 皮 、 裡 面 卻 是 殘 暴 的 狼 。 |
| Croatian | "Èuvajte se lažnih proroka koji dolaze k vama u ovèjem odijelu, a iznutra su vuci grabežljivi. |
| Danish | Men vogter eder for de falske Profeter, som komme til eder i Fåreklæder, men indvortes ere glubende Ulve. |
| Dutch | Maar wacht u van de valse profeten, dewelke in schaapsklederen tot u komen, maar van binnen zijn zij grijpende wolven. |
| Finnish | Kavahtakaa vääriä profeettoja, jotka tulevat teidän luoksenne lammastenvaatteissa, mutta sisältä ovat raatelevaisia susia. |
| French | Gardez-vous des faux prophètes. Ils viennent vous en vêtement de brebis, mais au dedans ce sont des loups ravisseurs. |
| German | Seht euch vor vor den falschen Propheten, die in Schafskleidern zu euch kommen, inwendig aber sind sie reißende Wölfe. |
| Haitian Creole | ¶ Pran prekosyon nou ak fo pwofèt yo. Yo pran pòz ti mouton yo lè y'ap vin sou nou, men nan fon kè yo, se bèt devoran yo ye. |
| Hungarian | Õrizkedjetek pedig a hamis prófétáktól, a kik juhoknak ruhájában jõnek hozzátok, de belõl ragadozó farkasok. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | "Hati-hatilah terhadap nabi-nabi palsu. Mereka datang kepada kalian berkedok domba, tetapi mereka sebenarnya seperti serigala yang buas. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Jagalah dirimu daripada segala nabi palsu, yang datang kepadamu dengan menyerupai dirinya seperti domba, tetapi di dalam hati mereka itu seperti serigala yang buas. |
| Italian | Guardatevi dai falsi profeti che vengono a voi in veste di pecore, ma dentro son lupi rapaci. |
| Korean | 거 " 지 자 " 을 삼 가 라 양 의 옷 을 입 너 희 에 게 나 아 오 나 속 에 " 노 략 질 하 " 이 리 라 |
| Latvian | Sargieties no viltîgajiem pravieðiem, kas nâk pie jums avju drçbçs, bet iekðienç ir plçsîgi vilki! |
| Manx Gaelic | Bee-jee er nyn dwoaie jeh phadeyryn foalsey, ta cheet hiu ayns coamrey keyrragh, agh cheu-sthie t'ad nyn moddee-oaldey jollyssagh. |
| Maori | ¶ Kia tupato ki nga poropiti teka e haere nei ki a koutou, he hipi te kakahu, ko roto ia he wuruhi kai kino. |
| Norwegian | Men vokt eder for de falske profeter, som kommer til eder i fåreklær, men innvortes er glupende ulver! |
| Portuguese | Guardai-vos dos falsos profetas, que vêm a vós disfarçados em ovelhas, mas interiormente são lobos devoradores. |
| Rumanian | Pqziyi-vq de prooroci mincinowi. Ei vin la voi kmbrqcayi kn haine de oi, dar pe dinlquntru sknt niwte lupi rqpitori. |
| Russian | вЕТЕЗЙФЕУШ МЦЕ ТПТПЛПЧ, ЛПФПТЩЕ ТЙИП"СФ Л ЧБН Ч ПЧЕЮШЕК П"ЕЦ"Е, Б ЧОХФТЙ УХФШ ЧПМЛЙ ИЙЭОЩЕ. |
| Shuar | ¶ `Aneartarum. Wáitruiniak "Wi Yúsnan étserjai" tuinia nu írunui. Pátatek murikiua ainis Yúpichuch ainiawai tura ni Enentáin nekas uunt-yawa ainis ainiawai. Pátatek shiir chichainiawai tura ni Enentáin yajauch piakuiti. |
| Spanish | "Guardaos de los falsos profetas, que vienen a vosotros vestidos de ovejas, pero que por dentro son lobos rapaces. |
| Swahili | "Jihadharini na manabii wa uongo. Wao huja kwenu wakionekana kama kondoo kwa nje, lakini kwa ndani ni mbwa mwitu wakali. |
| Swedish | Tagen eder till vara för falska profeter, som komma till eder i fårakläder, men invärtes äro glupande ulvar. |
| Thai | จงระวังผู้พยากร"์เท็จที่มาหาท่านนุ่งห่ม"ุจแกะ แต่ ายในเขาร้ายกาจ"ุจสุนัขป่า |
| Ukrainian | ¶ Стережіться фальшивих пророків, що приходять до вас ув одежі овечій, а всередині хижі вовки. |
| Uma | ¶ "Mo'inga' -inga' -koi, apa' ria tauna to mpo'uli', nabi-ra. Ntaa' boa' -radi. Hiloa-ra hewa tauna to mepangala' hi Alata'ala. Tapi' patuju-ra doko' mpokero pepangala' doo-wadi. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "ravening": ravenings. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "ravening": contravening, cravening. (additional references) | |
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"Ravening" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: raveing, ravenne, Ravignan, riviniana. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-g-i-n-n-r-v" | |
-1 letter: aginner, earning, engrain, grannie, nearing, nerving, reaving, vinegar. | |
-2 letters: earing, gainer, ginner, graven, inaner, naiver, narine, ravine, raving, reagin, regain, regina, rivage, vainer, vanner. | |
-3 letters: aiver, anger, ganev, garni, given, giver, grain, grave, inane, inner, invar, naevi, naive, range, raven, ravin, regna, reign, renig, renin, riven, vegan, venin, virga. | |
-4 letters: ager, agin, airn, aver, earn, gaen, gain, gane, gave, gear, gien, girn, give, gnar, gran, grin, nave, near, nevi, nine, rage, ragi, rain, rang, rani, rave, rein, ring, rive, vagi, vain, vair, vane, vang, vein, vena, vera, vier, viga, vina, vine. | |
-5 letters: age, ain, air, ane, ani, are, ave, ear, eng, era, erg, ern, gae, gan, gar, gen, gie, gin, inn, ire, nae, nag, nan, rag, ran, reg, rei, rev, ria, rig, rin, van, var, veg, via, vie, vig. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-g-i-n-n-r-v" | |
+1 letter: caverning, cravening, engraving, ravenings. | |
+2 letters: enervating, engravings, reinvading, renovating, unraveling, unwavering, venerating. | |
+3 letters: adventuring, anteverting, denervating, endeavoring, enravishing, innervating, lavendering, maneuvering, manoeuvring, overhanding, overhanging, overmanning, reengraving, unravelling, vernalizing. | |
+4 letters: contravening, endeavouring, interleaving, interweaving, overcleaning, overhandling, overlearning, overmanaging, overplanning, overplanting, oversanguine, overtraining, rejuvenating, undervaluing, unwaveringly. | |
+5 letters: animadverting, cantilevering, nonaggressive, nonfigurative, nonvegetarian, overanalyzing, overarranging, overbalancing, overdemanding, overexpanding, overinflating, overstraining, reinnervating, revaccinating. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 61 76 65 6E 69 6E 67 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-. .- ...- . -. .. -. --. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01100001 01110110 01100101 01101110 01101001 01101110 01100111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R a v e n i n g |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0061 0076 0065 006E 0069 006E 0067 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5267887180758073 |
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