Rapacious
Rapacious adjective - Living by killing and eating other animals.
Usage example: rapacious mammals, such as coyotes, foxes, and bobcats
Violent and rapacious are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Violent" instead an adjective "Rapacious".
Nearby Words: rapacity, rapaciously
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
- For although the heroes are Scots (plus an Irishman), the passionate strains of said trope still do much to evoke the energetically violent and rapacious spirits of many Irish and Highlander-Scots sub-cultures.
Source: Adventurous Irish Violins
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Violent and Rapacious. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 16, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/rapacious/violent
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