Rapacious
Rapacious adjective - Living by killing and eating other animals.
Usage example: rapacious mammals, such as coyotes, foxes, and bobcats
Wild and rapacious are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Wild" instead an adjective "Rapacious".
Nearby Words: rapacity, rapaciously
Both words in one sentence
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Even Evil Has Standards: Aladavan annihilates a clan of crazed haflings because they are rapacious cannibalistic monsters, worse than wild hackals.
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In the Wild Cards series there are brief mentions of a space-faring conglomerate known as "The Network" which is described at one point as "a form of capitalism more rapacious than anything you can imagine".
Source: One Nation Under Copyright
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Wild and Rapacious. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 22, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/rapacious/wild
Rapacious & Wild. N.p., 2016. Web. 22 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/rapacious/wild>.
Wild or Rapacious. 2016. Accessed July 22, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/rapacious/wild.
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