predatory
英英释意
- 1. characterized by plundering or pillaging or marauding;
- "bands of marauding Indians"
- "predatory warfare"
- "a raiding party"
- 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"
- 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