predacious Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective satellite hunting and killing other animals for food
    predaceous.
  2. adjective satellite living by or given to victimizing others for personal gain
    predatory; predaceous.
    • 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

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