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1. (adj.) predatory
preying upon other organisms for food.
2. predatory
characterized by plunder, robbery, or exploitation:
predatory tactics.
3. predatory
engaging in or living by these activities:
predatory bands of brigands.
4. predatory
acting with or indicative of rapacious, greedy, or selfish motives.
Etymology: (1580–90; < L praedātōrius. See predator , -tory1)
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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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Webster Dictionary |
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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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Sense: living by attacking and feeding on others
a predatory animal.
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 Afrikaans: roofsugtig |
 Arabic: مُفْتَرِس، ضار |
 Bulgarian: хищен |
 Brazilian: predatório |
 Czech: dravý |
 German: Raub-... |
 Danish: rov- |
 Greek: αρπακτικός |
 Spanish: depredador |
 Estonian: rööv- |
 Farsi: درنده |
 Finnish: peto- |
 French: prédateur, de proie |
 Hebrew: מְשַחֵר לַטֶרֶף |
 Hindi: परभक्षीता |
 Croatian: grabežljiv, pljačkaški |
 Hungarian: ragadozó |
 Indonesian: pemangsa |
 Icelandic: rán- |
 Italian: predatore |
 Japanese: 肉食の |
 Korean: 포식성의 |
 Lithuanian: plėšrus |
 Latvian: plēsīgs |
 Malay: pemangsa |
 Dutch: roof- |
 Norwegian: rov- |
 Polish: drapieżny |
 Persian: درنده |
 Pashto: زحشى، ځناور |
 Portuguese: de rapina |
 Romanian: de pradă |
 Russian: хищный |
 Slovak: dravý |
 Slovenian: roparski |
 Serbian: predatorski |
 Swedish: rovdjurs- |
 Thai: ที่กินสัตว์อื่นเป็นอาหาร |
 Turkish: yırtıcı, avcı |
 Taiwanese: 捕食其它動物的，肉食的 |
 Ukrainian: хижий |
 Urdu: شکار کرکے کھانا |
 Vietnamese: ăn thịt |
 Chinese: 捕食其它动物的，肉食的 |
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