What is the meaning of predatory?

Characterized by plundering or pillaging or marauding.
- usage: "bands of marauding Indians"; "predatory warfare"; "a raiding party"
- synonyms: marauding, raiding
Living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey.
- usage: "a predatory bird"; "the rapacious wolf"; "raptorial birds"; "ravening wolves"; "a vulturine taste for offal"
- synonyms: rapacious, raptorial, ravening, vulturine, vulturous
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, predacious

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