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Predacious meaning in English

Meaning of Predacious in English

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Predacious

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Adjective

1. predaceous, predacious

hunting and killing other animals for food

2. predaceous, predacious, predatory

living by or given to victimizing others for personal gain

Example Sentences:
'predatory capitalists'
'a predatory, insensate society in which innocence and decency can prove fatal'
'a predacious kind of animal--the early geological gangster'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.


Predacious

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adjective
1. 
(of animals) habitually hunting and killing other animals for food
2. 
preying on others

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Predacious

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adjective
preying on other animals; predatory

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Predacious

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adj.
1. Living by seizing or taking prey; predatory.
2. Given to victimizing, plundering, or destroying for one's own gain.

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