predatory

predatory /'predətəri/
  • tính từ
    • ăn cướp, ăn bóc; ăn trộm
    • ăn mồi sống; ăn thịt (động vật)

Xem thêm: marauding, raiding, rapacious, raptorial, ravening, vulturine, vulturous, predaceous, predacious



predatory

Từ điển WordNet

    adj.

  • characterized by plundering or pillaging or marauding; marauding, raiding

    bands of marauding Indians

    predatory warfare

    a raiding party

  • living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey; rapacious, raptorial, ravening, vulturine, vulturous

    a predatory bird

    the rapacious wolf

    raptorial birds

    ravening wolves

    a vulturine taste for offal

  • 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; predaceous, predacious