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/ɹəˈpeɪ.ʃəs/
Pronunciation notes
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ɹəˈpeɪ.ʃəs
Adjective
Voracious; avaricious.
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To presume a want of motives for such contests [of power between states] as an argument against their existence, would be to forget that men are ambitious, vindictive, and rapacious.
Relations between the Waveney Valley Railway and the E.C.R. [Eastern Counties Railway] soon became strained, because of the rapacious attitude adopted by the latter, and to the mismanagement which it displayed in working the smaller company's line.
Big Tech companies, on the other hand, have proven themselves to be rapacious capitalists—they take as much as they can and ask for permission later.
The rapacious maw of our despair
Given to taking by force or plundering; aggressively greedy.
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A Prince […] sooner becomes hated by being rapacious and by interfering with the property and with the women of his subjects, than in any other way.
Subsisting off live prey.
Usage- of an animal
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Even the rapacious birds appeared to comprehend the nature of the ceremony, for […] they once more began to make their airy circuits above the place[…]
Adjective
living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey
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a predatory bird
the rapacious wolf
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raptorial birds
ravening wolves
a vulturine taste for offal
excessively greedy and grasping
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a rapacious divorcee on the prowl
ravening creditors
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paying taxes to voracious governments
devouring or craving food in great quantities
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edacious vultures
a rapacious appetite
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ravenous as wolves
voracious sharks