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PREDATORY
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Living by or given to victimizing others for personal gain
Example:
a predacious kind of animal--the early geological gangster
Synonyms:
predaceous; predacious; predatory
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Similar:
acquisitive (eager to acquire and possess things especially material possessions or ideas)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey
Example:
a vulturine taste for offal
Synonyms:
predatory; rapacious; raptorial; ravening; vulturine; vulturous
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Similar:
aggressive (having or showing determination and energetic pursuit of your ends)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Characterized by plundering or pillaging or marauding
Example:
a raiding party
Synonyms:
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Adjectives
Similar:
offensive (for the purpose of attack rather than defense)
