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English Dictionary: predatory	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for predatory
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
predatory adj characterized by plundering or pillaging or marauding; "bands of marauding Indians"; "predatory warfare"; "a raiding party" Synonym(s): marauding, predatory, raiding 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" Synonym(s): predatory, rapacious, raptorial, ravening, vulturine, vulturous 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 Synonym(s): predaceous, predacious, predatory
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Predatory \Pred"atory\, 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. [bd]A predatory war.[b8] --Macaulay. 2. Hungry; ravenous; as, predatory spirits. [Obs.] Exercise . . . maketh the spirits more hot and predatory. --Bacon. 3. (Zo[94]l.) Living by preying upon other animals; carnivorous.