About The Word Rapacious
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Rapacious
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What's The Definition Of Rapacious?
[adj] devouring or craving food in great quantities; "edacious vultures"; "a rapacious appetite"; "ravenous as wolves"; "voracious sharks"
[adj] excessively greedy and grasping; "a rapacious divorcee on the prowl"; "ravening creditors"; "paying taxes to voracious governments" [adj] 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" Synonyms | Synonyms for Rapacious: acquisitive | aggressive | edacious | esurient | gluttonous | predatory | raptorial | ravening | ravenous | voracious | vulturine | vulturous | wolfish Related Terms | Find terms related to Rapacious: See Also | Rapacious In Webster's Dictionary \Rapa"cious\, a. [L. rapax, -acis, from rapere to
seize and carry off, to snatch away. See {Rapid}.]
1. Given to plunder; disposed or accustomed to seize by
violence; seizing by force. `` The downfall of the
rapacious and licentious Knights Templar.'' --Motley.
2. Accustomed to seize food; subsisting on prey, or animals
seized by violence; as, a tiger is a rapacious animal; a
rapacious bird.
3. Avaricious; grasping; extortionate; also, greedy;
ravenous; voracious; as, rapacious usurers; a rapacious
appetite.
[Thy Lord] redeem thee from Death's rapacious claim
--Milton.
Syn: Greedy; grasping; ravenous; voracious. --
{Ra*pa"cious*ly}, adv. -- {Ra*pa"cious*ness}, n.
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