 predacious |
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| 1. | [ adjective ] hunting and killing other animals for food | |
| Synonyms: | predaceous | |
| Related terms: | carnivorous | |
| 2. | [ adjective ] living by or given to victimizing others for personal gain | |
| Synonyms: | predatory predaceous | |
| Examples: | "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"-Swinton |
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| Related terms: | acquisitive | |
| Similar spelling: |
predaceous prodigious prodigiously predication predictor productive production predictive prediction |
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