What's the difference between hungry and ravenous?

Hungry


Definition:

  • (superl.) Feeling hunger; having a keen appetite; feeling uneasiness or distress from want of food; hence, having an eager desire.
  • (superl.) Showing hunger or a craving desire; voracious.
  • (superl.) Not rich or fertile; poor; barren; starved; as, a hungry soil.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A considerably greater increase in the peak plasma OT concentration resulted when hungry foster litters of 6 pups were suckled after the mothers' own 6 pups had been suckled.
  • (2) As a strategy to reach hungry schoolchildren, and increase domestic food production, household incomes and food security in deprived communities, the GSFP has become a very popular programme with the Ghanaian public, and enjoys solid commitment from the government.
  • (3) It is right that the food banks feed those who would otherwise go hungry, offering a picture of a different kind of economy, though they can do little to address the causes of hunger.
  • (4) They are hungry for training, education, youth clubs, arts and sports opportunities, and mentoring advice.
  • (5) When asked if climate scientists get sick of being asked about records by headline hungry media, he graciously laughed, and said: "For a particular month there is very little significance.
  • (6) Some people say that anyone who wants to help homeless, hungry people should just make a financial donation to an established charity.
  • (7) We Libyans are just as hungry for a just and accountable government as our Tunisian brothers and sisters.
  • (8) Stevan Jovetic is hungry for more after his match-winning double strike for Manchester City against Liverpool.
  • (9) The relationship of the "digestive" and "hungry" electrical activities of the duodenum depended both on the compared type of potential and on the compared time periods.
  • (10) In addition, baseline levels of neural activity in attack suppressing brain areas prior to any brain stimulation were found to decrease when the cats were hungry and killing was facilitated and neural activity increased when the cats were on ad lib.
  • (11) Everyone's hungry and cold, they wouldn't even let people go to the toilet.
  • (12) These are all countries with people who go hungry but, were humanitarian need the only criterion for giving food aid, you might expect to see more countries from west Africa higher on the list, points out Rob Bailey, a fellow at Chatham House.
  • (13) He was hungry, he was cold, he couldn’t carry on – what else could we do?” She stops for a second, and leans down to caress Vito at her feet.
  • (14) Hungry but previously "prepared" for winter fleas lived at a temperature from 0 to 2 degrees not more than 376 days.
  • (15) But he added: “Whilst it is being rolled out, we must have the data to allow us to hold the DWP [Department for Work and Pensions] to account and suggest where improvements can be made.” Scrooge is at large on our hungry streets | Letters Read more The committee said it had been difficult to hold the department to account on benefit delays because of a lack of available data on the timeliness and accuracy of benefits for some disabled people and short-term benefit advance applications.
  • (16) Justin Welby said that it was “a tragedy” that hunger still existed in the UK in the 21st century and praised the work of charity food banks which he said were “striving to make life bearable for people who are going hungry”.
  • (17) The offering of food to the hungry animal, and subsequent brief feeding periods, were associated with marked accentuation of this theta activity.
  • (18) The samples from recently fed animals contained 28% less serotonin than those from hungry ones.
  • (19) The Trussell Trust has provided through its network of food banks emergency assistance for over 500,000 people since 2013 who are in financial crisis, who are going hungry who have been referred by more than 23,000 different professionals holding vouchers.
  • (20) There is of course a case for ensuring that children do not go hungry and thus lack concentration.

Ravenous


Definition:

  • (a.) Devouring with rapacious eagerness; furiously voracious; hungry even to rage; as, a ravenous wolf or vulture.
  • (a.) Eager for prey or gratification; as, a ravenous appetite or desire.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Recent winners such as the Ravens, Giants, Packers and Steelers typically stayed away from free agents, and fans are catching on.
  • (2) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Baltimore Ravens NFL player Eugene Monroe.
  • (3) Suddenly the game seemed to be slipping away from the Ravens, matters going from bad to worse as Ray Rice fumbled at the Baltimore 24.
  • (4) Despite a cramping, high-concept production set in a psychiatric ward, Richardson gave us a Richard resembling a monstrous child whose ravening will had yet to be curbed by social custom.
  • (5) Sea raven AFP cDNA clones were isolated from a liver cDNA library using a synthetic oligonucleotide, and the identity of one of the clones, C2-1, was confirmed by hybridization selection and cell-free translation.
  • (6) We just don’t believe the argument or the rationale is strong enough to transcend what has been around for thousands of years.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Jarica Jordan (right), Raven Knight (center) and a friend in downtown Fargo during the gay pride parade.
  • (7) Five feet of water filled his kitchen and downstairs in the building that also houses his architectural practice, Red Raven Design.
  • (8) The findings suggest that loss of intellectual capacity on the Raven's Matrices can be attributed to age.
  • (9) In the email Raven says she and her supporters have raised the £6,000 needed to launch phase one of the Spare Rib website in May but that an additional £20,000 is required to launch a bimonthly print magazine this autumn.
  • (10) Ravens 7 - 49ers 0, 10:36 1st quarter A big 3rd & 4 sees Flacco in the shotgon, then hitting Boldin to opening up the scoring in Super Bowl XLVII!
  • (11) This is the equivalent of the apes leaving the Tower of London, or the ravens quitting Gibraltar, or the other way round.
  • (12) Dr. Clara Raven, Deputy Medical Examiner of Wayne County testified before the committee because of her experience in dealing with many tragic deaths due to criminal abortions and child abuse and neglect due to unwanted pregnancy.
  • (13) Then Rice with a short run, an incomplete pass to Boldin and a little pass to Rice as the Ravens can't pick up a second first down on this drive and kick it away into the end zone.
  • (14) 3.31am GMT Ravens 34 - 49ers 29, 2:00 of 4th Quarter Warning, this Super Bowl has two minutes left!
  • (15) As mentioned, the Ravens were able to defeat the Broncos last year in overtime with a 47 yard field goal by Tucker.
  • (16) Alicia Keys handles the song, which was written near the shores of the Chesapeake Bay around the Baltimore Harbor, quite close to where the Ravens play their home games - coincidence?
  • (17) Speed of reaction (as defined by the reciprocal of reaction time (RT), movement time (MT) and total response time (TRT] and accuracy of response (as represented by the sum of errors in selecting the correct response key) were investigated comparatively as a function of side of lesion and of performance on Raven's Coloured Progressive Matrices (PM47).
  • (18) Solution acceptance, as recorded for the different ravens on each test, was the percentage of preference shown for a test solution over water (comparison solution).
  • (19) At which point restraint becomes as powerful as the Seeds' ravenous beer-hall bluster; a ten-minute Stagger Lee is a masterclass in tension and drama, Cave balancing precariously on the crowd barrier with audience members holding him up by the boot-heel as he leans out to sing his tale of a deviant killer directly into the eyes of a hypnotised girl in white hoisted on someone's shoulders.
  • (20) @lengeldavid or by email at david.lengel.freelance@guardiannews.com Paolo's coverage of the exhausted Ravens and Broncos is over here.