ravening

1. devouring or craving food in great quantities

    e.g. edacious vultures
           a rapacious appetite
           ravenous as wolves
           voracious sharks

    Synonym: edacious esurient rapacious ravenous voracious wolfish

2. excessively greedy and grasping

    e.g. a rapacious divorcee on the prowl
           ravening creditors
           paying taxes to voracious governments

    Synonym: rapacious voracious

3. living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey

    e.g. a predatory bird
           the rapacious wolf
           raptorial birds
           ravening wolves
           a vulturine taste for offal

    Synonym: predatory rapacious raptorial vulturine vulturous