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English to English adjective
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Characterized by plundering; practicing rapine; plundering; pillaging; as, a predatory excursion; a predatory party. |  | source: webster1913
adjective satellite
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characterized by plundering or pillaging or marauding | | Example: bands of marauding Indians
predatory warfare
a raiding party
source: wordnet30
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living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey | | Example: a predatory bird
the rapacious wolf
raptorial birds
ravening wolves
a vulturine taste for offal
source: wordnet30
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living by or given to victimizing others for personal gain | | Example: predatory capitalists
a predatory, insensate society in which innocence and decency can prove fatal
a predacious kind of animal--the early geological gangster
source: wordnet30
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