predatory

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predatory Definition

• (s) characterized by plundering or pillaging or marauding; "bands of marauding Indians"; "predatory warfare"; "a raiding party"
• (s) 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"
• (s) 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.Swin

predatory Synonyms

• marauding
• predaceous
• predacious
• predatory
• raiding
• rapacious
• raptorial
• ravening
• vulturine
• vulturous