meaning of predatory
1. Characterized by plundering; practicing rapine; plundering; pillaging; as, a predatory excursion; a predatory party.
2. Hungry; ravenous; as, predatory spirits.
3. Living by preying upon other animals; carnivorous.
4. 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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predatory | predatory animal |
