Synonyms of the word raven


RAVENDEVOUR - EAT - FEED - FORAGE - GUTTLE - PIG - PREDATE - PREY - SEIZE

raven

  • n. A common name for several, generally large and lustrous black species of birds in the genus Corvus, especially…
  • adj. Of the color of the raven; jet-black.
  • n. Rapine; rapacity.
  • n. Prey; plunder; food obtained by violence.
  • v. (transitive, archaic) To obtain or seize by violence.
  • v. (transitive) To devour with great eagerness.
  • v. (transitive) To prey on with rapacity.
  • v. (intransitive) To show rapacity; to be greedy (for something).

devour

  • v. To eat quickly, greedily, hungrily, or ravenously.
  • v. To rapidly destroy, engulf, or lay waste.
  • v. To take in avidly with the intellect.
  • v. To absorb or engross the mind fully, especially in a destructive manner.

eat

  • v. To ingest; to be ingested.
  • v. To use up.
  • v. (transitive, informal) To cause (someone) to worry.
  • v. (transitive, business) To take the loss in a transaction.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To corrode or erode.
  • v. (transitive, informal, vulgar) To perform oral sex on someone.
  • n. (colloquial) Something to be eaten; a meal; a food item.

feed

  • v. (transitive) To give (someone or something) food to eat.
  • v. (intransitive) To eat (usually of animals).
  • v. (transitive) To give (someone or something) to (someone or something else) as food.
  • v. (transitive) To give to a machine to be processed.
  • v. (figuratively) To satisfy, gratify, or minister to (a sense, taste, desire, etc.).
  • v. To supply with something.
  • v. To graze; to cause to be cropped by feeding, as herbage by cattle.
  • v. (sports, transitive) To pass to.
  • v. (phonology, of a phonological rule) To create the environment where another phonological rule can apply.
  • n. (uncountable) Food given to (especially herbivorous) animals.
  • n. Something supplied continuously.
  • n. The part of a machine that supplies the material to be operated upon.
  • n. (countable) A gathering to eat, especially in quantity.
  • n. (Internet) Encapsulated online content, such as news or a blog, that can be subscribed to.
  • v. simple past tense and past participle of fee.

forage

  • n. Fodder for animals, especially cattle and horses.
  • n. An act or instance of foraging.
  • n. (obsolete) The demand for fodder etc by an army from the local population.
  • v. To search for and gather food for animals, particularly cattle and horses.
  • v. To rampage through, gathering and destroying as one goes.
  • v. To rummage.

guttle

  • v. To put into the gut; to eat voraciously; to swallow greedily; to gorge, gormandize.
  • v. To swallow.
  • v. (Britain, dialectal, Northern England) To make a bubbling sound.
  • v. (Britain, dialectal, Scotland) To remove the guts from; eviscerate.

pig

  • n. Any of several mammalian species of the genus Sus, having cloven hooves, bristles and a nose adapted for…
  • n. (specifically) A young swine, a piglet (contrasted with a hog, an adult swine).
  • n. (uncountable) The edible meat of such an animal; pork.
  • n. Someone who overeats or eats rapidly and noisily.
  • n. A nasty or disgusting person, usually male.
  • n. A dirty or slovenly person.
  • n. (now chiefly US, Britain, Australia, derogatory, slang) A police officer.
  • n. (informal) A difficult problem.
  • n. (countable and uncountable) A block of cast metal.
  • n. The mold in which a block of metal is cast.
  • n. (engineering) A device for cleaning or inspecting the inside of an oil or gas pipeline, or for separating…
  • n. (pejorative) A person who is obese to the extent of resembling a pig (the animal).
  • n. (US, military, slang) The general-purpose M60 machine gun, considered to be heavy and bulky.
  • n. (uncountable) A simple dice game in which players roll the dice as many times as they like, either accumulating…
  • v. (of swine) to give birth.
  • v. (intransitive) To greedily consume (especially food).
  • v. (intransitive) To huddle or lie together like pigs, in one bed.
  • v. (transitive, engineering) To clean (a pipeline) using a pig (the device).
  • n. (Scotland) earthenware, or an earthenware shard.
  • n. An earthenware hot-water jar to warm a bed; a stone bed warmer.

predate

  • v. To designate a date earlier than the actual one; to move a date, appointment, event, or period of time…
  • v. (transitive) To exist, or to occur before something else; to antedate (the more correct term for this…
  • n. A publication, such as a newspaper or magazine, that is issued with a printed date later than the date…
  • v. To prey upon something.

prey

  • n. (archaic) Anything, as goods, etc., taken or got by violence; anything taken by force from an enemy in…
  • n. That which is or may be seized by animals or birds to be devoured; hence, a person given up as a victim.
  • n. A living thing that is eaten by another living thing.
  • n. The act of devouring other creatures; ravage.
  • n. The victim of a disease.
  • v. (intransitive) To act as a predator.

seize

  • v. (transitive) To deliberately take hold of; to grab or capture.
  • v. (transitive) To take advantage of (an opportunity or circumstance).
  • v. (transitive) To take possession of (by force, law etc.).
  • v. (transitive) To have a sudden and powerful effect upon.
  • v. (transitive, nautical) To bind, lash or make fast, with several turns of small rope, cord, or small line.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To fasten, fix.
  • v. (intransitive) To lay hold in seizure, by hands or claws (+ on or upon).
  • v. (intransitive) To have a seizure.
  • v. (intransitive) To bind or lock in position immovably; see also seize up.
  • v. (Britain, intransitive) To submit for consideration to a deliberative body.

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