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predatory 音标拼音: [pr'ɛdət,ɔri] a. 掠夺的,进行掠夺的,捕食生物的 掠夺的,进行掠夺的,捕食生物的 predatory adj 1: characterized by plundering or pillaging or marauding; "bands of marauding Indians"; "predatory warfare"; "a raiding party" [synonym: {marauding}, {predatory}, {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" [synonym: {predatory}, {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 [synonym: {predaceous}, {predacious}, {predatory}] 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. [1913 Webster] 2. Hungry; ravenous; as, predatory spirits. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] Exercise . . . maketh the spirits more hot and predatory. --Bacon. [1913 Webster] 3. (Zool.) Living by preying upon other animals; carnivorous. [1913 Webster] 33 Moby Thesaurus words for "predatory":
all-devouring, all-engulfing, avaricious, bloodsucking, carnivorous, despoiling, extortionate, grabby, grasping, greedy, larcenous, looting, lupine, marauding, parasitic, pillaging, plundering, plunderous, predacious, rapacious, raptorial, ravaging, ravening, ravenous, robbing, sharkish, spoliatory, thieving, usurious, voracious, vulturine, vulturous, wolfish
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