rapacious, adj.
devouring or craving food in great quantities
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edacious esurient rapacious ravening ravenous voracious wolfish
sample sentences
"edacious vultures""a rapacious appetite"
"ravenous as wolves"
"voracious sharks"
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excessively greedy and grasping
<adj.all>
rapacious ravening voracious
sample sentences
"a rapacious divorcee on the prowl""ravening creditors"
"paying taxes to voracious governments"
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living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey
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predatory rapacious raptorial ravening vulturine vulturous
sample sentences
"a predatory bird""the rapacious wolf"
"raptorial birds"
"ravening wolves"
"a vulturine taste for offal"
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