Hunting and killing other animals for food. Synonym:predacious.
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Living by or given to victimizing others for personal gain. Synonyms:predacious, predatory."A predatory, insensate society in which innocence and decency can prove fatal" , "A predacious kind of animal--the early geological gangster"
... powers and qualities that rarely go together. Thus, he has both physical and moral courage in a degree rare in history. He can stand calm and unflinching in the path of a charging grizzly, and he can confront with equal coolness and determination the predaceous corporations and money ... — Camping with President Roosevelt • John Burroughs
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