| Definitions of 'predatory' |
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1. (adj) marauding, predatory, raiding
characterized by plundering or pillaging or marauding
"bands of marauding Indians"; "predatory warfare"; "a raiding party"
2. (adj) predatory, rapacious, raptorial, ravening, vulturine, vulturous
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"
3. (adj) predaceous, predacious, predatory
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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| Definitions of 'predatory' |
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1. (adj) predatory
characterized by plundering; practicing rapine; plundering; pillaging; as, a predatory excursion; a predatory party
2. (adj) predatory
hungry; ravenous; as, predatory spirits
3. (adj) predatory
living by preying upon other animals; carnivorous
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