adjective
characterized by plundering or pillaging or marauding
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- bands of marauding Indians
- predatory warfare
- a raiding party
adjective
living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey
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Examples
- a predatory bird
- the rapacious wolf
- raptorial birds
- ravening wolves
- a vulturine taste for offal
adjective
living by or given to victimizing others for personal gain
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- 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