predatory

英 ['predət(ə)rɪ] 美['prɛdətɔri]

• adj. 掠夺的，掠夺成性的；食肉的；捕食生物的

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