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Keywords: Ravenous, Voracious, Greedy, Prey, Wolves
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Given to plunder; disposed or accustomed to seize by violence; seizing by force.
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Accustomed to seize food; subsisting on prey, or animals seized by violence; as, a tiger is a rapacious animal; a rapacious bird.
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Avaricious; grasping; extortionate; also, greedy; ravenous; voracious; as, rapacious usurers; a rapacious appetite.
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taking by force; plundering; without reck
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