Usually means: Greedy, aggressively taking or grasping.
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  1. rapacious: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. rapacious: Merriam-Webster
  3. rapacious: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. rapacious: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. rapacious: Collins English Dictionary
  6. rapacious: Vocabulary.com
  7. Rapacious, rapacious: Wordnik
  8. rapacious: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. rapacious: Wiktionary
  10. rapacious: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. rapacious: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. rapacious: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Rapacious, rapacious: Dictionary.com
  14. Rapacious: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. rapacious: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. rapacious: Rhymezone
  17. Rapacious: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. rapacious: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. rapacious: FreeDictionary.org
  20. rapacious: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. rapacious: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. rapacious: Legal dictionary

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  1. rapacious: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. rapacious: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Rapacious: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See rapaciously as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  (also figurative) Voracious; avaricious.
adjective:  Given to taking by force or plundering; aggressively greedy.
adjective:  (of an animal, usually a bird) Subsisting off live prey.

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