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单词 predatory
释义 Adjective: predatory  'predu`toree [N. Amer], 'predut(u)ree [Brit]
  1. Characterized by plundering or pillaging or marauding
    "predatory warfare"
    - marauding, raiding 
  2. Living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey
    "a predatory bird"
    - 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"
    - predaceous, predacious

See also: acquisitive, aggressive, offensive

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