rapacious
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1 rapacious
Living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey:
— The rapacious wolf.
synoniemen: predatory, raptorial, ravening, vulturine, vulturous.
Roget 819: parsimonious, penurious, stingy, miserly, mean, shabby, peddling, scrubby, penny wise, near, niggardly, close; fast handed, close handed, ... meer laten zien
Roget 789: taking etc. v.; privative†, prehensile; predaceous, predal†, predatory, predatorial†; lupine, rapacious, raptorial; ravenous; parasitic. ... meer laten zien
2 rapacious
Excessively greedy and grasping:
— A rapacious divorcee on the prowl.
3 rapacious
Devouring or craving food in great quantities:
— A rapacious appetite.
synoniemen: edacious, esurient, ravening, ravenous, voracious, wolfish.
Roget 817a: greedy, avaricious, covetous, acquisitive, grasping; rapacious; lickerish†. greedy as a hog; overeager; voracious; ravenous, ravenous as a wolf; openmouthed, extortionate, ... meer laten zien
Pools: łakomy, łasy
Moby betekeniswoordenboek: Apician, a hog for, acquisitive, all-devouring, all-engulfing, avaricious, avid, bloodsucking, bolting, bottomless, coveting, covetous, cramming, crapulent, crapulous, devouring, edacious, esurient, extortionate, ferocious ... meer laten zien.
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