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predacious
/ prɪˈdeɪʃəs, prɪˈdæsɪtɪ /
adjective
(of animals) habitually hunting and killing other animals for food
preying on others
Other Word Forms
- predaciousness noun
- predacity noun
- unpredaceous adjective
- unpredaceously adverb
- unpredaceousness noun
- unpredacious adjective
- unpredaciously adverb
- unpredaciousness noun
- ˈ岹dzܲԱ noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of predacious1
Word History and Origins
Origin of predacious1
Example Sentences
The picture tells the story of a young woman, Danae, who’s been locked in a high tower by her father to keep her away from predacious men.
She feels shut out by the city’s predacious, moneyed tribes, battered by its “impenetrable shapes” and “fierce elbows.”
They’re predacious, eating whatever they can get their grubby hands on.
Now, four days later, Nukita warned us that a similarly predacious swarm of print and television reporters lay in wait for us in Kathmandu.
Metastasis therefore requires the untethering of these bonds, to allow predacious cancer cells to migrate freely.
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