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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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