Modifies a noun

• appetite: With England's finest to add his ravenous appetite for goals, surely the long wait would soon by over.

• wolf: For Christ commands, " Beware of false prophets who come to you in the clothing of sheep, yet inwardly are ravenous wolves!

• beast: I have to deal on a day-to-day basis with this ravenous beast [ the Tory press ] .

• hunger: The blaze crackles with a ravenous hunger, consuming the Hyperion with the enthusiasm of flames for vampires.

• bird: Less wisps of straw most gone by dusk Ravenous birds will clean the rest.

• fish: Apart from hordes of ravenous immature fish, brown trout were very, very scarce.

Modifying Another Word

• all: By lunchtime we had masses of paper to hand and were all ravenous.

• so: They had no supper but coffee, and the dogs were so ravenous that they were almost devouring each other.

• absolutely: Alex, who was possibly going to join us, turned up later on, and was absolutely ravenous having had nothing to eat.

Used with adjective complement

• get: I started cleating the asparagus bed of weeds too, but was happy to pass that over the Chris, as SB getting ravenous.

• become: After several days without food the tortoise will become ravenous.