ravin down

verb

To gobble ravenously, devour voraciously

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Meanings

verbravin down (third-person singular simple present ravins down, present participle ravining down, simple past and past participle ravined down)

present singular third person ravins down · participle present ravining down · participle past ravined down · past ravined down

  1. archaicTo gobble ravenously, devour voraciously

    Our natures do pursue, / Like rats that ravin down their proper bane,

    c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], page 128
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