predaceous (adj.)

  1. hunting and killing other animals for food

    [ Syn: predacious ]

  2. 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

    [ Syn: predacious , predatory ]

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