characterized by plundering or pillaging or marauding; bands of marauding Indians; predatory warfare; a raiding party

[ Syn: marauding , raiding ]

living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey; a predatory bird; the rapacious wolf; raptorial birds; ravening wolves; a vulturine taste for offal

[ Syn: rapacious , raptorial , ravening , vulturine , vulturous ]

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: predaceous , predacious ]