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Meaning of predatory

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  predatory
      adj 1: characterized by plundering or pillaging or marauding;
             "bands of marauding Indians"; "predatory warfare"; "a
             raiding party" [syn: {marauding}, {predatory}, {raiding}]
      2: 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: {predatory}, {rapacious}, {raptorial},
         {ravening}, {vulturine}, {vulturous}]
      3: 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},
         {predatory}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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