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ravin

Archaic Terms
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

Plunder, prey, or spoils seized violently; also as a verb, to seize greedily or devour ravenously, like a bird of prey; variant spelling and meaning of "raven."

Detailed Definition
“Ravin” conveys voracious consumption—wolves in ravin, time in ravin. In poetry, it symbolizes insatiable greed or destruction. The term’s harshness mirrors violence. Poets use it to explore how appetite consumes, where ravin marks moral or physical decay, reinforcing themes of excess, mortality, and predation in allegorical and tragic contexts.
Example
Example in poetry:
“The wolf’s ravin left no trace,” in a brutal natural image; In Milton: “Ravin down thy fill”; “Her heart was torn by ravin grief”; “The ravin storm stripped the trees”; “Ravin for power consumes the soul”; The eagle’s ravin fed her young.
Additional Notes
“Ravin” (from “raven”) implies greedy consumption; as noun, it denotes plunder; in beast imagery or moral allegory, “eyes full of ravin” depict insatiable lust for power, wealth, or flesh.
Also Known As
ravenous devouring rapacious
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