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# ravenous

«ravenous» in Mova's school dictionary: **Very, very hungry, so hungry that you could eat a great deal** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective

### meaning for a pupil

Very, very hungry, so hungry that you could eat a great deal. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/ravenous/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in tales, a hungry traveller or a hungry animal wanting food

### examples

- After the long walk we were ravenous. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/ravenous/#x1)
- He was ravenous and ate two bowls of soup. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/ravenous/#x2)
- The wolf was ravenous and looked for food. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/ravenous/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### In the corpora

- [As a roaring lion, and a ravenous bear; so is a wicked ruler over a poor people.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.819/)
- [His trouble shall be ravenous, and calamity shall be ready for his fall.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.457/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «ravenous» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/ravenous/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.