as in devoured
to swallow or eat greedily
the rat ravened the poisoned bait just as we had hoped
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ravened
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The Fujiwhara effect kicked in, and Hinnamnor and the depression interacted and rotated until the typhoon devoured the depression.—
Mary Gilbert,
CNN Money,
25 Sep. 2025 -
That’s almost the scale of electricity that Sam Altman and his partners say will be devoured by their next wave of AI data centers—a single corporate project consuming more power, every single day, than two American cities pushed to their breaking point.—
Eva Roytburg,
Fortune,
24 Sep. 2025
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The fungus releases spores that rise into the air and can be inhaled, Thompson said.—
Eduardo Cuevas,
USA Today,
22 Sep. 2025
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Just be sure never to mix vinegar with hydrogen peroxide, which can cause a harmful toxic gas if inhaled.—
Rebecca Jones,
Southern Living,
21 Sep. 2025
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So the 46,000 at the Stadium of Light gulped again.—
Michael Walker,
New York Times,
22 Sep. 2025
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Hamparian scoffed at the sentiment.—
Brady Knox,
The Washington Examiner,
21 Sep. 2025
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The bite was great, the barge remained popular and it should be noted that not only were there no limits in those days, anglers of the era would have scoffed at the notion of catch and release.—
Eric DuVall,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
17 Sep. 2025
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The members of the two groups crammed into a series of London flats together, and all the while, Bulsara was trying to make his way into Smile.—
Brian Hiatt,
Rolling Stone,
24 Sep. 2025
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But considering all that energy is crammed into an incredibly tiny area, the energy densities reach conditions not seen in the universe since the earliest moments of the Big Bang.—
Paul Sutter,
Space.com,
23 Sep. 2025
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“Ravened.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ravened. Accessed 30 Sep. 2025.
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