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predacious

adjective as in meat-eating

adjective as in preying

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The picture tells the story of a young woman, Danae, who’s been locked in a high tower by her father to keep her away from predacious men.

She feels shut out by the city’s predacious, moneyed tribes, battered by its “impenetrable shapes” and “fierce elbows.”

They’re predacious, eating whatever they can get their grubby hands on.

Now, four days later, Nukita warned us that a similarly predacious swarm of print and television reporters lay in wait for us in Kathmandu.

Metastasis therefore requires the untethering of these bonds, to allow predacious cancer cells to migrate freely.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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