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Ravenous vs Devouring - What's the difference?

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Ravenous is a related term of devouring.


As an adjective ravenous

is very hungry.

As a verb devouring is

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As a noun devouring is

the act by which something is devoured.

ravenous

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Very hungry.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers)
    • , chapter=5, title= A Cuckoo in the Nest , passage=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.}}
  • (rfc-sense) Eager for prey or gratification.
  • * 1843 , (Thomas Carlyle), '', book 3, ch. IX, ''Working Aristocracy
    • 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!

    Synonyms

    * starving (qualifier) * See also

    See also

    * voracious

    devouring

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is devoured.
  • * 1982 , Frederick Asals, Flannery O'Connor, the Imagination of Extremity (page 189)
    • But like all the other symbolic devourings in the novel, this one too brings its revelation.