ravening

/ˈræv(ə)nɪŋ/

Someone who's ravening is ferociously hungry, like a wild animal. A ravening monster in a horror film hunts its prey for food.

While a ravening wolf is fierce and brutal in its hunger, you can also use ravening to describe someone who acts wild or brutish in other ways. A businessman's ravening greed is so savage that he doesn't care who's hurt in his pursuit of money. A crowd of ravening children might dive for candy beneath a piñata, shoving each other out of the way. A now obsolete verb, raven, or "prey, plunder, or devour," is the root of ravenous.

Definitions of ravening

1. adjective

   excessively greedy and grasping
   “ravening creditors”

   synonyms: rapacious, voracious

   acquisitive

   eager to acquire and possess things especially material possessions or ideas
2. adjective

   devouring or craving food in great quantities
   synonyms: edacious, esurient, rapacious, ravenous, voracious, wolfish

   gluttonous

   given to excess in consumption of especially food or drink
3. adjective

   living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey
   “ravening wolves”

   synonyms: predatory, rapacious, raptorial, vulturine, vulturous

   aggressive

   having or showing determination and energetic pursuit of your ends