Meaning of ravin | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Property obtained or seized by force or violence; booty, plunder, spoils.
   archaic, countable, literary, uncountable
2. Of a (predatory) animal: seizing or devouring of food or prey; predation.
   archaic, literary, uncountable
3. Gluttony, greed, rapacity; also, the quality of being predatory; predatoriness.
   archaic, figuratively, literary, uncountable
4. A predatory animal; a predator.
   archaic, countable, literary, obsolete, rare
5. Obtaining or seizing property by force or violence; pillage, plunder, robbery; (countable, chiefly in the plural) an instance of this.
   archaic, literary, obsolete, uncountable
6. That which a predatory animal seizes for food; prey; also (hunting) an animal which is hunted; quarry.
   archaic, literary, obsolete, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Tho' Nature, red in tooth and claw / With ravine, shriek'd against his creed”

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