RAPACIOUS meaning: Greedy, aggressively taking or grasping

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rapacious: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
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rapacious: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
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rapacious: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ 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.

Opposite:

abstemious, moderate, stingy, temperate

Types:

vulture, raven, wolf, bear, lion, tiger, leopard, panther, crocodile, more...

Phrases:

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