Usually means: Consumes human flesh as food.
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We found 13 dictionaries that define the word man-eating:

General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. man-eating: Merriam-Webster
  2. man-eating: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. man-eating, man-eating: Collins English Dictionary
  4. Man-eating, man-eating: Wordnik
  5. man-eating: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. man-eating: Wiktionary
  7. man-eating: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. man-eating: Dictionary.com
  9. Man-eating: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. man-eating: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. man-eating: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

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▸ adjective:  Inclined to eat human flesh; that attacks and kills humans for food.

Similar:
maneating, anthropophagic, anthropophagical, anthropophagistic, anthropophagous, anthropophobic, anticarnivorous, animalculist, anticannibalism, antihuman, more...

Opposite:
herbivorous, vegetarian, non-carnivorous

Phrases:
man-eating shark, Man-eating plant, Chuka man-eating tiger, more...

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Similar:
maneating, anthropophagic, anthropophagical, anthropophagistic, anthropophagous, anthropophobic, anticarnivorous, animalculist, anticannibalism, antihuman, more...

Opposite:
herbivorous, vegetarian, non-carnivorous

Phrases:
man-eating shark, Man-eating plant, Chuka man-eating tiger, more...



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