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ravening
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Ravening
(gcide) | Ravening \Rav"en*ing\, n.
Eagerness for plunder; rapacity; extortion. --Luke xi. 39.
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Ravening
(gcide) | Ravening \Rav"en*ing\, a.
Greedily devouring; rapacious; as, ravening wolves. --
Rav"en*ing*ly, adv.
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Ravening
(gcide) | Raven \Rav"en\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ravened (r[a^]v"'nd); p.
pr. & vb. n. Ravening.] [Written also ravin, and ravine.]
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1. To obtain or seize by violence. --Hakewill.
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2. To devour with great eagerness.
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Like rats that ravin down their proper bane. --Shak.
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ravening
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adj 1: 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" [syn: predatory, rapacious, raptorial,
ravening, vulturine, vulturous]
2: excessively greedy and grasping; "a rapacious divorcee on the
prowl"; "ravening creditors"; "paying taxes to voracious
governments" [syn: rapacious, ravening, voracious]
3: devouring or craving food in great quantities; "edacious
vultures"; "a rapacious appetite"; "ravenous as wolves";
"voracious sharks" [syn: edacious, esurient, rapacious,
ravening, ravenous, voracious, wolfish] |
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contravening
(encz) | contravening, |
Contravening
(gcide) | Contravene \Con`tra*vene"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Contravened;
p. pr. & vb. n. Contravening.] [LL. contravenire; L. contra
+ venire to come: cf. F. contrevenir. See Come.]
1. To meet in the way of opposition; to come into conflict
with; to oppose; to contradict; to obstruct the operation
of; to defeat.
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So plain a proposition . . . was not likely to be
contravened. --Southey.
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2. To violate; to nullify; to be inconsistent with; as, to
contravene a law.
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Laws that place the subjects in such a state
contravene the first principles of the compact of
authority. --Johnson.
Syn: To contradict; set aside; nullify; defeat; cross;
obstruct; baffle; thwart.
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Cravening
(gcide) | Craven \Cra"ven\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cravened (-v'nd); p. pr.
& vb. n. Cravening.]
To make recreant, weak, spiritless, or cowardly. [Obs.]
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There is a prohibition so divine,
That cravens my weak hand. --Shak.
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predatory rapacious raptorial ravening vulturine vulturous
(gcide) | Aggressive \Ag*gres"sive\, a. [Cf. F. agressif.]
1. Tending or disposed to aggress; having or showing
determination and energetic pursuit of one's own ends at
the expense of others or mindless of others' needs or
desires; characterized by aggression; making assaults;
unjustly attacking; as, an aggressive policy, war, person,
nation; an aggressive businessman; an aggressive
basketball player; he was aggressive and imperious in his
convictions; aggressive drivers. Opposite of
unaggressive.
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No aggressive movement was made. --Macaulay.
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2. Marked by self-confident ambition, vigorous
competitiveness, energy and initiative; as, an aggressive
young executive.
Syn: enterprising, pushful, pushing, pushy
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3. (Med., Biol.) Tending to grow or spread quickly; as, an
aggressive tumor. [Narrower terms: {invasive (vs.
noninvasive) ] --AS
Syn: fast-growing(prenominal)
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4. Tending to initiate unprovoked attacks; initiating
unprovoked military action; eager to fight; as, aggressive
acts against another country.
Syn: belligerent.
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Note: Narrower related terms: {bellicose, combative,
pugnacious, scrappy, truculent ; {hard-hitting,
high-pressure ; hostile (used of attempts to buy or
take control of a business: "hostile takeover";
"hostile tender offer"); {predatory, rapacious,
raptorial, ravening, vulturine, vulturous . See also:
assertive, hostile, offensive.
[WordNet 1.5] -- Ag*gres"sive*ly, adv. --
Ag*gres"sive*ness, n.
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Ravening
(gcide) | Ravening \Rav"en*ing\, n.
Eagerness for plunder; rapacity; extortion. --Luke xi. 39.
[1913 Webster]Ravening \Rav"en*ing\, a.
Greedily devouring; rapacious; as, ravening wolves. --
Rav"en*ing*ly, adv.
[1913 Webster]Raven \Rav"en\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ravened (r[a^]v"'nd); p.
pr. & vb. n. Ravening.] [Written also ravin, and ravine.]
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1. To obtain or seize by violence. --Hakewill.
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2. To devour with great eagerness.
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Like rats that ravin down their proper bane. --Shak.
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Raveningly
(gcide) | Ravening \Rav"en*ing\, a.
Greedily devouring; rapacious; as, ravening wolves. --
Rav"en*ing*ly, adv.
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