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predaceous

pre·da·ceous

US/priˈdeɪʃʌs/ uncommon

adjective

1.

hunting and killing other animals for food

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2.

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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Origin

From Latin praedor + -aceous.

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