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Significados de ravenous em inglês

Devouring or craving food in great quantities.

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Extremely hungry.

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I have seen young women starved to the point of non existence.
Feminist dot com
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Then there's the idea to use sex-starved insects to follow bank robbers.
Wired
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Seven or eight hundred anemic, half-starved men armed with light infantry weapons.
The forgotten soldier
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There was an excited flush in his starved cheeks; his eyes shone.
The Honor of the Big Snows
5
Those who cannot pay risk being beaten, starved, or forced into prostitution.
Reuters
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Twenty long minutes later, mighty Zeppelin returned to satiate their famished followers.
I’m With the Band
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Here these children were now, famished in the middle of a war.
The Guardian
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Open gates enable provisions to reach the half-famished dwellers within the walls.
The Little Lady of Lagunitas: A Franco-Californian Romance
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You must be famished, Mr. Langenau; pray go immediately to the dining-room.
Richard Vandermarck: A Novel
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This was the cry of the famished motherhood of a dying race.
The Heart of the Desert / Kut-Le of the Desert
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But I was wakeful now and my mind was sharp-set on many things.
Greenmantle
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Yonder Abbot is sharp-set, and I doubt whether letters will satisfy his appetite.
The Lady of Blossholme
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The face, sunk away to skin clinging on sharp-set bones, was turned in profile.
The Emigrant Trail
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Bein' here all night, I expect ye be purty sharp-set, the whole on ye.
Nan Sherwood's Winter Holidays; Or, Rescuing the Runaways
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Perhaps it was their sharp-set appetites that made them think the food tasted unusually fine.
The Boys of Columbia High on the Gridiron : or, the Struggle for...
Uso de ravenous em inglês
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The flock came together ravenous and cannibal, and the party got clear.
Iron Council
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And for the first time since I could remember, I was ravenous.
Hard-boiled wonderland and the end of the world: a novel
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He caught the dangerous scent tonight; but he was ravenous to madness.
The Son of Tarzan
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The ravenous manner in which they devour their food is almost incredible.
Three Voyages for the Discovery of a Northwest Passage from the ...
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The eyes of the ravenous monsters below seemed to mock my devotion.
The Little Savage
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Despite the Hendrix's perfectly balanced autochef breakfast, I discovered I was ravenous.
Altered carbon
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I was in good health again, and my appetite was simply ravenous.
Sailing Alone Around the World
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Wexford Festival Opera offers enough music to satisfy a ravenous culture vulture.
The Irish Times
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Dagmar was ravenous and restive, her child soon ready for the world.
Dagmar's daughter
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They spoke in low, strange voices-atonce male and female, all ravenous.
Heir of Fire
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He had not eaten and the icy air begot a ravenous hunger.
The Trail of '98: A Northland Romance
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Still close upon his heels had followed the ravenous and untiring wolves.
The War Trail: The Hunt of the Wild Horse
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Behind were only the ravenous waves seeking to overtake and swamp me.
Swept Out to Sea / Or, Clint Webb Among the Whalers
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In fact, when I think of it, I am ravenous, he answered.
The Ghost of Guir House
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The condor, however, is one of the most ravenous of his species.
The Boy Hunters
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His long fast had caused him to feel the most ravenous hunger.
Legends of Charlemagne
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