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predatory


adjective
1. 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
Syn:
rapacious, raptorial, ravening, vulturine, vulturous
Similar to:
aggressive
Derivationally related forms:
vulture (for: vulturous), raptor (for: raptorial)
2. 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
Syn:
predaceous, predacious
Similar to:
acquisitive
3. characterized by plundering or pillaging or marauding
- bands of marauding Indians
- predatory warfare
- a raiding party
Syn:
marauding, raiding
Similar to:
offensive

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