Definitions for predatory

Definitions for (adj) predatory

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


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