| Pronunciation: | | pri'deyshus
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- [adj] 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
- [adj] hunting and killing other animals for food
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PREDACEOUS is a 10 letter word that starts with P. |
| | Synonyms: | | acquisitive, carnivorous, predacious, predatory |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Pre*da"ceous\, a. [L. praeda prey. See {Prey}.]
Living by prey; predatory. --Derham.
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