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rapacious

[ ruh-pey-shuhs ]

adjective

  1. given to seizing for plunder or the satisfaction of greed.
  2. inordinately greedy; predatory; extortionate:

    a rapacious disposition.

    Synonyms: , ,

    Antonyms:

  3. (of animals) subsisting by the capture of living prey; predacious.


rapacious

/ r蓹藞p忙s瑟t瑟; r蓹藞pe瑟蕛蓹s /

adjective

  1. practising pillage or rapine
  2. greedy or grasping
  3. (of animals, esp birds) subsisting by catching living prey
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • rapacity, noun
  • 谤补藞辫补肠颈辞耻蝉濒测, adverb
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Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms

  • 谤补路辫补路肠颈辞耻蝉路濒测 adverb
  • 谤补路辫补肠路颈路迟测 [r, uh, -, pas, -i-tee], 谤补路辫补路肠颈辞耻蝉路苍别蝉蝉 noun
  • 耻苍路谤补路辫补路肠颈辞耻蝉 adjective
  • un路谤补路辫补路肠颈辞耻蝉路濒测 adverb
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of rapacious1

First recorded in 1645鈥55; from Latin 谤补辫腻肠颈- (stem of 谤补辫腻虫 鈥済reedy,鈥 akin to rapere 鈥渢o seize鈥; rape 1 ) + -ous
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of rapacious1

C17: from Latin 谤补辫腻虫 grasping, from rapere to seize
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Even in the triumph of the worst, which is the age of robber barons and the age of rapacious capitalism and imperialism, even those things were being contested.

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For Kyiv, it's the only way to guarantee the country's future survival, against a rapacious Russian enemy bent on subjugating Ukraine.

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Or, as John Huston鈥檚 rapacious tycoon Noah Cross says in 鈥淐hinatown,鈥 鈥淢ost people never have to face the fact that at the right time and the right place, they鈥檙e capable of anything.鈥

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鈥淭he jokes about the United CEO aren鈥檛 really about him,鈥 journalist Ken Klippenstein posted on X. 鈥淭hey鈥檙e about the rapacious healthcare system he personified and which Americans feel deep pain and humiliation about.鈥

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Despite Zelensky鈥檚 frequently passionate insistence that only membership of the Western alliance can ensure Ukraine鈥檚 survival against its large, rapacious neighbour, it鈥檚 clear Nato members remain divided on the issue.

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