adjective
- Hunting and killing other animals for food.
- synonyms: predaceous
- 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
- synonyms: predaceous, predatory
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