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Rapacious

Given to plunder; disposed or accustomed to seize by violence; seizing by force.

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Acquisitive 84% connected

Acquired.

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Acquisitive 84% connected

Acquired.

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Aggressive 84% connected

Tending or disposed to aggress; characterized by aggression; making assaults; unjustly attacking; as, an aggressive policy, war, person, nation.

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Aggressive 84% connected

Tending or disposed to aggress; characterized by aggression; making assaults; unjustly attacking; as, an aggressive policy, war, person, nation.

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Gluttonous 84% connected

Given to gluttony; eating to excess; indulging the appetite; voracious; as, a gluttonous age.

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Gluttonous 84% connected

Given to gluttony; eating to excess; indulging the appetite; voracious; as, a gluttonous age.

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Rapacity 74% connected

The quality of being rapacious; rapaciousness; ravenousness; as, the rapacity of pirates; the rapacity of wolves.

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Rapacity 74% connected

The quality of being rapacious; rapaciousness; ravenousness; as, the rapacity of pirates; the rapacity of wolves.

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Edacious 92% connected

Given to eating; voracious; devouring.

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Esurient 92% connected

Inclined to eat; hungry; voracious.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Predatory 92% connected

Characterized by plundering; practicing rapine; plundering; pillaging; as, a predatory excursion; a predatory party.

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Raptorial 92% connected

Rapacious; living upon prey; -- said especially of certain birds.

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Ravening 92% connected

of Raven

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Ravenous 92% connected

Devouring with rapacious eagerness; furiously voracious; hungry even to rage; as, a ravenous wolf or vulture.

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Voracious 92% connected

Greedy in eating; very hungry; eager to devour or swallow; ravenous; gluttonous; edacious; rapacious; as, a voracious man or appetite; a voracious gu…

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Vulturine 92% connected

Of or pertaining to a vulture; resembling a vulture in qualities or looks; as, the vulturine sea eagle (Gypohierax Angolensis); vulturine rapacity.

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Vulturous 92% connected

Like a vulture; rapacious.

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Wolfish 92% connected

Like a wolf; having the qualities or form of a wolf; as, a wolfish visage; wolfish designs.

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