how to pronounce ravening

/ˈɹæv.ən.ɪŋ/

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ravening is pronounced in three syllables

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An example use of ravening in a speech by a native speaker of british english:

“… was like a wolf crafty and ravening they …”

meanings of ravening

adjective:

Voracious and greedy.
Subject to the voracity of a predator.

noun:

Predation (of an animal); voracious eating or consumption.
Eagerness for plunder; rapacity; extortion.

ravening frequency in english - C2+ level of CEFR

the word ravening occurs in english on average 0.2 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2+ level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics ravening can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that ravening can be often used in the following areas:

1) life, nature, and living environment;