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(satellite adjective) living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey; "a predatory bird"; "the rapacious wolf"; "raptorial birds"; "ravening wolves"; "a vulturine taste for offal" |
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Synonyms: rapacious, raptorial, ravening, vulturine, vulturous |
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(satellite adjective) characterized by plundering or pillaging or marauding; "bands of marauding Indians"; "predatory warfare"; "a raiding party" |
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Synonyms: marauding, raiding |
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(satellite adjective) living by or given to victimizing others for personal gain; "predatory capitalists"; "a predatory, insensate society in which innocence and decency can prove fatal"- Peter S. Prescott; "a predacious kind of animal--the early geological gangster"- W.E.Swinton |
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Synonyms: predaceous, predacious |
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