Main entry: predaceous, predacious, predatory
Definition: living by or given to victimizing others for personal gain
Usage: 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
Main entry: vulturine, vulturous, predatory, rapacious, raptorial, ravening
Definition: living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey
Usage: a predatory bird; the rapacious wolf; raptorial birds; ravening wolves; a vulturine taste for offal
Main entry: marauding, raiding, predatory
Definition: characterized by plundering or pillaging or marauding
Usage: bands of marauding Indians; predatory warfare; a raiding party