PREDATORY — ТЛУМАЧЕННЯ

predatory

Living by or given to victimizing others for personal gain. Приклади
  • 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.Swin.
Living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey. Приклади
  • A predatory bird.
  • The rapacious wolf.
  • Raptorial birds.
  • Ravening wolves.
  • A vulturine taste for offal.
Characterized by plundering or pillaging or marauding. Приклади
  • Bands of marauding Indians.
  • Predatory warfare.
  • A raiding party.
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