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ravenousness

noun

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as in rapacity

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  1. rapacity
  2. voracity
  3. voraciousness
  4. rapaciousness
  5. stomach
  6. hunger
  7. malnutrition
  8. starvation
Noun
  • Sudan’s civil war, a conflict credibly described as the world’s worst humanitarian crisis, has seen violence matched only by the belligerents’ rapacity in pillaging the country’s riches.
    — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2026
  • This variation of socialism aimed to blunt the rapacity of capitalism rather than sharpen its contradictions and hasten the coming revolution.
    — Idrees Kahloon, The Atlantic, 6 July 2026
Definition of rapacity
Noun
  • To satisfy its voracity for billions of pages, Anthropic started out by placing mass orders with wholesalers, before turning to individual and secondhand booksellers to help fill in the gaps.
    — Francesca Mancino, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2026
  • The biblical voracity of these insects make them among the world’s most destructive pests.
    — Gennaro Tomma, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2024
Definition of voracity
Noun
  • That voraciousness informs her work, her choices, and her understanding of character.
    — Clayton Davis, Variety, 21 Nov. 2025
  • Its voraciousness has threatened native populations of minks, muskrats, and river otters.
    — Nathaniel Rich, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
Definition of voraciousness
Noun
  • Some laud the nation’s rapaciousness.
    — Tyler Green, The Atlantic, 21 May 2026
Definition of rapaciousness
Noun
  • People were clutching their stomachs, hurling vomit into buckets.
    — Claire Hoffman, Rolling Stone, 21 Sep. 2026
  • Lilly had gone to the emergency room with stomach pain just three days after graduating from university in 2024.
    — Julia Vargas Jones, CNN Money, 20 Sep. 2026
Definition of stomach
Noun
  • The candidate also stressed cost efficiency and collaborations with other UN agencies in implementing the organization's mandate of providing regular access to enough high-quality food and ending hunger and malnutrition.
    — Anniek Bao, CNBC, 24 Sep. 2026
  • More than half of Haiti’s population of 12 million are facing acute hunger.
    — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 23 Sep. 2026
Definition of hunger
Noun
  • Nearly 94,000 of them are projected to face severe acute malnutrition, a potentially life-threatening condition without timely treatment.
    — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 19 Sep. 2026
  • Millions of people across Congo were already dealing with malaria, measles, and malnutrition; more than 20,000 people died of malaria in 2024 alone.
    — STEPHANIE PSAKI, Foreign Affairs, 18 Sep. 2026
Definition of malnutrition
Noun
  • Animals were confined in overcrowded cages, covered in feces and suffered starvation, dehydration, open wounds and untreated medical conditions, Hochman said.
    — Sandra McDonald, Los Angeles Times, 18 Sep. 2026
  • But all of the effort is ultimately in vain, as every worker wasp will eventually perish from starvation or cold weather.
    — Caden Perry, jsonline.com, 10 Sep. 2026
Definition of starvation
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“Ravenousness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ravenousness. Accessed 27 Sep. 2026.

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