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rapacious 音標拼音: [rəp'æʃɪs] [rəp'eʃɪs] a. 強奪的,貪欲的,貪婪的 強奪的,貪欲的,貪婪的 rapacious adj 1: living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey; " a predatory bird"; " the rapacious wolf"; " raptorial birds"; " ravening wolves"; " a vulturine taste for offal" [ synonym: { predatory}, { rapacious}, { raptorial}, { ravening}, { vulturine}, { vulturous}] 2: excessively greedy and grasping; " a rapacious divorcee on the prowl"; " ravening creditors"; " paying taxes to voracious governments" [ synonym: { rapacious}, { ravening}, { voracious}] 3: devouring or craving food in great quantities; " edacious vultures"; " a rapacious appetite"; " ravenous as wolves"; " voracious sharks" [ synonym: { edacious}, { esurient}, { rapacious}, { ravening}, { ravenous}, { voracious}, { wolfish}] Rapacious \ Ra* pa" cious\ ( r[. a]* p[= a]" sh[ u^] s), a. [ L. rapax, - acis, from rapere to seize and carry off, to snatch away. See { Rapid}.] [ 1913 Webster] 1. Given to plunder; disposed or accustomed to seize by violence; seizing by force. " The downfall of the rapacious and licentious Knights Templar." -- Motley. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Accustomed to seize food; subsisting on prey, or animals seized by violence; as, a tiger is a rapacious animal; a rapacious bird. [ 1913 Webster] 3. Avaricious; grasping; extortionate; also, greedy; ravenous; voracious; as, rapacious usurers; a rapacious appetite. [ 1913 Webster] [ Thy Lord] redeem thee quite from Death' s rapacious claim -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] Syn: Greedy; grasping; ravenous; voracious. [ 1913 Webster] -- { Ra* pa" cious* ly}, adv. -- { Ra* pa" cious* ness}, n. [ 1913 Webster] 73 Moby Thesaurus words for " rapacious": Apician, a hog for, acquisitive, all- devouring, all- engulfing, avaricious, avid, bloodsucking, bolting, bottomless, coveting, covetous, cramming, crapulent, crapulous, devouring, edacious, esurient, extortionate, ferocious, fierce, glutting, gluttonizing, gluttonous, gobbling, gorging, grabby, grasping, greedy, gulping, guttling, guzzling, hoggish, hyperphagic, insatiable, insatiate, intemperate, limitless, lupine, mercenary, miserly, money- hungry, money- mad, omnivorous, overgreedy, parasitic, piggish, polyphagic, predacious, predatory, quenchless, raptorial, ravening, ravenous, sharkish, slakeless, sordid, stuffing, swinish, unappeasable, unappeased, unquenchable, unsated, unsatisfied, unslakeable, unslaked, usurious, venal, voracious, vulturine, vulturous, wolfing, wolfish
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