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Meaning of 'rapacious'
Meaning of 'rapacious' (Webster Dictionary)
1. Rapacious 
[ a.]
- Given to plunder; disposed or accustomed to seize by
violence; seizing by force. [ a.]- Accustomed to seize food; subsisting on prey, or animals seized by violence; as, a tiger is a rapacious animal; a rapacious bird.
- Avaricious; grasping; extortionate; also, greedy; ravenous; voracious; as, rapacious usurers; a rapacious appetite.
Meaning of 'rapacious' (Princeton's WordNet)
1. rapacious [ s]
[ s]Meaning (1):
- living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey
- living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey
Example in sentence:
- a predatory bird;
- a vulturine taste for offal;
- raptorial birds;
- ravening wolves;
- the rapacious wolf
Meaning (2):
- excessively greedy and grasping
- excessively greedy and grasping
Example in sentence:
- a rapacious divorcee on the prowl;
- paying taxes to voracious governments;
- ravening creditors
Meaning (3):
- devouring or craving food in great quantities
- devouring or craving food in great quantities
Example in sentence:
- a rapacious appetite;
- edacious vultures;
- ravenous as wolves;
- voracious sharks
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