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Etymology [ edit ]

Borrowed from Old French raviner (“rush, seize by force”), itself from ravine (“rapine”), from Latin rapina (“plundering, loot”), itself from rapere (“seize, plunder, abduct”)

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

( obsolete ) To dine or feast upon plunder or goods seized by violence. 1908, Edmund Doidge Anderson Morshead (transl.), The Seven Against Thebes in Four Plays of Aeschylus, page 124. Now, if ye hear the bruit of death or wounds,

Give not yourselves o'ermuch to shriek and scream,

For Ares ravins upon human flesh.

Noun [ edit ]

ravin (uncountable)

Adjective [ edit ]

ravin (comparative more ravin, superlative most ravin)

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French [ edit ]

Etymology [ edit ]

From ravine or raviner, from Old French ravine, from Latin rapina.

Pronunciation [ edit ]

IPA (key) : /ʁa.vɛ̃/

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Noun [ edit ]

ravin m (plural ravins)

Further reading [ edit ]

“ravin” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Noun [ edit ]

ravin (singular a ravin, plural a fu ravin)

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