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raven
noun
1 raven
Large black bird with a straight bill and long wedge-shaped tail.
synonym: Corvus corax.
Roget 431:
blackness,
etc.
adj.;
darkness,
etc.
(want of light)..
421;
swartliness†,
lividity,
dark color,
tone,
color;
chiaroscuro
etc.
420.
nigrification†,
infuscation†.
jet,
ink,
ebony,
coal pitch,
soot,
charcoal,
sloe,
smut,
raven,
crow.
[derogatory terms for black-skinned people]
negro,
blackamoor,
man of color,
nigger,
darkie,
Ethiop,
black;
buck,
nigger [U.S.];
coon [U.S.],
sambo.
[Pigments]
lampblack,
ivory black,
blueblack;
writing ink,
printing ink,
printer's ink,
Indian ink,
India ink.
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Roget 957:
gluttony;
greed,
avarice;
greediness
etc.
adj.;
voracity.
epicurism;
good living,
high living;
edacity†,
gulosity†,
crapulence†;
guttling†,
guzzling;
pantophagy†.
good cheer,
blow out;
feast
etc.
(food)
298;
gastronomy,
batterie de cuisine [Fr.].
epicure,
bon vivant,
gourmand;
glutton,
cormorant,
hog,
belly god,
Apicius†,
gastronome;
gourmet
etc.
954.1,
868.
v..
gormandize,
gorge;
overgorge†,
overeat oneself;
engorge,
eat one's fill,
cram,
stuff;
guttle†,
guzzle;
bolt,
devour,
gobble up;
gulp
etc.
(swallow food)
298;
raven,
eat out of house and home.
have the stomach of an ostrich;
play a good knife and fork
etc.
(appetite)
865.
pamper.
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Dutch: raaf
Polish: kruk
verb
1 raven
Obtain or seize by violence.
2 raven
3 raven
Eat greedily.
synonyms: devour, guttle, pig.
Dutch: vreten, schransen, binnenspelen, buffelen, bunkeren, metselen, opschransen, opschrokken, opslokken, schrokken, slokken, verslinden, verzwelgen, zwelgen ... show more
4 raven
Moby thesaurus: angry clouds, atramentous, batten, be ravenous, black, black as coal, black as ebony, black as ink, black as midnight, black as night, black cat, black clouds, bolt, bolt down, broken mirror, charcoal, coal, coal-black, coaly, cram, crow, dark, dark as night, dark as pitch, deep black, depredate, despoil, devour, ebon, ebony, engorge, eye hungrily, feel hungry, fleece, forage, foray, freeboot, gathering clouds, glut, gluttonize, gobble, gorge, gormandize, gulp, gulp down, gut, guttle, guzzle, halcyon bird, have a tapeworm, hunger, hunger for, ink, ink-black, inky, jet, jetty, live to eat, loot, maraud, midnight, night, night-black, night-dark, nigrous, owl, pillage, pitch, pitch-black, pitch-dark, pitchy, plunder, prey on, raid, rainbow, ransack, ravage, raven-black, ravish, reive, rifle, sable, sack, shooting star, sloe, sloe-black, sloe-colored, smoke, smut, soot, spoil, spoliate, starve, storm clouds, stormy petrel, stuff, sweep, tar, tar-black, tarry, thirst, thirst for, thundercloud, thunderhead, wolf, wolf down ... show more.
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