Definition of "raven"
- noun
A common name for several, generally large and lustrous black species of birds in the genus Corvus, especially the common raven, Corvus corax.
Rapine; rapacity.
Prey; plunder; food obtained by violence.
- adjective
Of the color of the raven; jet-black.
- verb
To obtain or seize by violence.
To devour with great eagerness.
To prey with rapacity; to be greedy; to show rapacity.
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