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predacious   (TTS Sound)

The adj predacious has 2 senses

• predacious, predaceous -- (hunting and killing other animals for food)


• predaceous, predacious, predatory -- (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)