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predatory

 

  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Predatory  \Pred"a*to*ry\,  a.  [L.  praedatorius  fr  praedari  to 
  plunder,  fr  praeda  prey.  See  {Prey}.] 
  1.  Characterized  by  plundering;  practicing  rapine; 
  plundering;  pillaging;  as  a  predatory  excursion;  a 
  predatory  party.  ``A  predatory  war.''  --Macaulay. 
 
  2.  Hungry;  ravenous;  as  predatory  spirits.  [Obs.] 
 
  Exercise  .  .  .  maketh  the  spirits  more  hot  and 
  predatory.  --Bacon. 
 
  3.  (Zo["o]l.)  Living  by  preying  upon  other  animals; 
  carnivorous. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  predatory 
  adj  1:  characterized  by  plundering  or  pillaging  or  marauding; 
  "bands  of  marauding  Indians";  "predatory  warfare";  "a 
  raiding  party"  [syn:  {marauding},  {raiding}] 
  2:  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"  [syn:  {rapacious},  {raptorial},  {ravening},  {vulturine}, 
  {vulturous}] 
  3:  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  [syn:  {predaceous},  {predacious}]




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