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Meanings of rapacious in английском
Devouring or craving food in great quantities.
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Living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey.
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Examples for "ravenous"
Examples for "ravenous"
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The flock came together ravenous and cannibal, and the party got clear.
2
And for the first time since I could remember, I was ravenous.
3
He caught the dangerous scent tonight; but he was ravenous to madness.
4
The ravenous manner in which they devour their food is almost incredible.
5
The eyes of the ravenous monsters below seemed to mock my devotion.
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Only the constant shrieking and the cold, voracious energy confirmed its presence.
2
The wind strengthened the fire and the flames roared like voracious beasts.
3
I'm a voracious reader, I get through a book every few days.
4
It seems the Irish have developed a voracious interest in overseas property.
5
Although Obama was popular, he was not voracious in his social networking.
1
The girls were not in the least scared by the wolfish concert.
2
The wolf will be always wolfish; the fox will be always foxy.
3
Here were leashed the forty fierce and wolfish beasts of the pack.
4
There was something almost wolfish in the facial malignity that distorted him.
5
Only living.' He glanced across at her and smiled that wolfish grin.
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She couldn't protect herself against our ravening dad with a mere cut-eye!
2
Because she had formed an image of me as a ravening monster?
3
At one o'clock the four elder ones would be upon her, ravening.
4
The deep voice of the wind is that of a ravening beast.
5
And yet, why throw a rag like this to us ravening wolves?
1
The clamourings of esurient Viennese-
2
Lowest of all are those whose esurient vanity, acting on a frivolous levity of mind, urges them to make Literature a plaything for display.
3
Oscar-theamiable, irresponsible, esurient Oscar-with no more sense of a picture than of the fit of a coat, has the courage of the opinions .
Usage of rapacious in английском
1
He'd simply become more rapacious as the time for the cleansing neared.
2
What money is made is retained by private academies and rapacious administrators.
3
The contour of his hook-nosed face had something rapacious written on it.
4
He cannot be at once a rapacious creditor and a discharged bankrupt.
5
His heart fell when he saw the rapacious gleam in their eyes.
6
As ambitious, rapacious, eager for nothing but military glory and territorial aggrandisement.
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They say that a pure bloodline frustrates the ambitions of rapacious men.
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The man with the rapacious desire for annihilating success in his eyes.
9
Pirates, rapacious politicians, religious matters, or witchcraft were sometimes sources of disturbance.
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Behind his glasses, his eyes had the rapacious look of a wolf.
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There was about them something rapacious and condescending... something which inspired dread.
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The skuas are bare-faced robbers and most rapacious, harassing the penguins in particular.
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Of course, it is not just rapacious foreigners doing the fishing in Kiribati.
14
The ideological choice is not between unbridled capitalism or an overbearing, rapacious state.
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This most rapacious miscreant would hold his favor with the king.
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The rapacious axe had not spared one of the leafy tribe.
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United Kingdom
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