ravenous

Adjective

• devouring or craving food in great quantities
  • edacious vultures
    
  • a rapacious appetite
    
  • ravenous as wolves
    
  • voracious sharks
    

• extremely hungry
  • they were tired and famished for food and sleep
    
  • a ravenous boy
    
  • the family was starved and ragged
    
  • fell into the esurient embrance of a predatory enemy
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  edacious , esurient , rapacious , ravening , voracious , wolfish , famished , sharp-set , starved