RAVENED Synonyms: 20 Similar and Opposite Words

ravened

verb

past tense of raven

as in devoured

to swallow or eat greedily the rat ravened the poisoned bait just as we had hoped

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Their father devoured his meal, slurping up soup with his right hand and swallowing bread spread with miso paste with his left.

— Cynthia Zarin, Harpers Magazine, 4 Aug. 2026
Suddenly, you’re scooped up, whisked to a perch, and efficiently devoured by a blue dasher dragonfly.

— Rachel Sargent Mirus, Hartford Courant, 3 Aug. 2026

Definition of devoured

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Spores can enter through a cut in the skin or be inhaled or ingested.

— RJ Mackenzie, Popular Science, 5 Aug. 2026
There's been a drastic increase Fine particulates and gases, including carbon monoxide, are inhaled and can lodge deep within the lungs, causing inflammation and irritation.

— Phaedra Trethan, USA Today, 19 July 2026

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The idea that schools might directly pay college athletes, whose jerseys sometimes generated millions of dollars in sales, through a revenue-sharing model would have been scoffed at in 2003.

— Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 28 July 2026
McClintock’s colleagues, obsessed with scientific reductionism, scoffed at her near-spiritual dedication to understanding organismal biology in its fullness and complexity.

— The New Yorker, New Yorker, 4 July 2026

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Oddly enough, though floors 1 through 16 looked like offices behind the cladding of specially tinted glass framed in stainless steel, they were actually crammed with electronics and electromechanical relays.

— David Szondy August 01, New Atlas, 1 Aug. 2026
To have so much capability crammed into a phone that bends in half is a marvel.

— Eric Zeman, PC Magazine, 22 July 2026

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