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单词 predatory
释义
Predatory
adj satadj.allcharacterized by plundering or pillaging or marauding
Synset:marauding raiding
Examples:
  • bands of marauding Indians
  • predatory warfare
  • a raiding party
Antonyms:defensive
Inherited Hypernyms:marauding
Similar to:offensive
adj satadj.allliving by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey
Synset:rapacious raptorial ravening vulturine vulturous
Examples:
  • a predatory bird
  • the rapacious wolf
  • raptorial birds
  • ravening wolves
  • a vulturine taste for offal
Antonyms:unaggressive
Derivationally Related Form:raptorvulture
Inherited Hypernyms:predatory
Similar to:aggressive
adj satadj.allliving by or given to victimizing others for personal gain
Synset:predaceous predacious
Examples:
  • 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
Antonyms:unacquisitive
Inherited Hypernyms:predaceous
Similar to:acquisitive
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