predatory

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◎ 单词释义

adj.掠夺的;捕食生物的

副词: predatorily 名词: predatoriness

adj.(形容词)

    掠夺成性的

    食肉的

    掠夺的

    以掠夺为目的的

    掠夺性的

    【动】捕食其他动物的

    富有掠夺性的

    弱肉强食的

    捕食性的

    捕食生物的

    企图奴役他人的

    Adjective:

      characterized by plundering or pillaging or marauding;

      "bands of marauding Indians"
      "predatory warfare"
      "a raiding party"

      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"

      living by or given to victimizing others for personal gain;

      "predatory capitalists"
      "a predatory, insensate society in which innocence and decency can prove fatal"
      "a predacious kind of animal--the early geological gangster"

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predatory的用法及例句:

Revenge might justify his praedatory excursions by sea and land.