predaceous Meaning, Definition & Usage

1. adjective satellite hunting and killing other animals for food
   predacious.
   
2. adjective satellite living by or given to victimizing others for personal gain
   predacious; predatory.
   
   • 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

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