Predatory
['predət(ə)rɪ] or ['prɛdətɔri]
Definition
(adj.) 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' .
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Definition
(a.) Characterized by plundering; practicing rapine; plundering; pillaging; as, a predatory excursion; a predatory party.
(a.) Hungry; ravenous; as, predatory spirits.
(a.) Living by preying upon other animals; carnivorous.
Editor: Nell
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Plundering, pillaging.[2]. Rapacious, ravenous, greedy, voracious, hungry, preying.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Pillaging, plundering, marauding, rapacious, greedy, ravenous
ANT:Guarding, keeping, watching, protecting,[See RAPACIOUS]
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Examples
- And Herbert had seen him as a predatory Tartar of comic propensities, with a face like a red brick, and an outrageous hat all over bells. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- A servile civilization is a standing invitation to predatory free men. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- There was nothing predatory. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
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