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(biology, ethology) A carnivorous animal that prefers to capture or trap prey by stealth or strategy, rather than by speed or strength.
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A wild, turbulent situation in which multiple sharks or other predatory fish attack one or more edible creatures simultaneously, in competition with each other.
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Characteristic of prey; game-like.
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(anthropology) A person who practises headhunting, the taking and preserving of a person's head after killing them.
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A member of a group of people who live by hunting animals and gathering edible plants for their main food sources, and who do not keep animals or farm land.
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An animal shelter that eventually carries out euthanasia on those animals it cannot find homes for.
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(UK dialectal) The flank or loin.
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(countable, informal, among vorarephiles) Abbreviation of predator. [Any animal or other organism that hunts and kills other non-plant organisms (their prey), primarily for food.]
adj
Surviving by preying on other animals.
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Alternative spelling of predaceous [Surviving by preying on other animals.]
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Of or relating to prey; plundering; predatory.
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(obsolete) The action of attacking or plundering.
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Of, or resembling a predator.
adj
Of, or relating to a predator.
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(obsolete) To prey; to plunder.
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A person or thing given up as a victim.
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(transitive, figuratively) To exploit or victimize.
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(heraldry) Preying; in the posture of preying (upon something).
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(obsolete) Rich in prey.
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Obsolete spelling of predator [Any animal or other organism that hunts and kills other non-plant organisms (their prey), primarily for food.]
adj
Obsolete form of predatory. [Of, or relating to a predator.]
v
To secure prey; to prey, as a vulture or harpy.
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(of an animal, usually a bird) Subsisting off live prey.
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obsolete typography of ravening [(archaic, literary) Predation (by an animal); voracious eating or consumption.]
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(archaic, literary) Predation (by an animal); voracious eating or consumption.
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(obsolete) Food obtained by violence; plunder; prey; raven.
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(transitive, intransitive) To give birth to an animal prematurely.
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The act or operation of neutering an animal; normally used in reference to performing the operation on a female.
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Alternative form of springald [(now rare, archaic) A youth; a young man, a stripling.]
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The behaviour of a predator that kills more prey than it can immediately eat and then caches or abandons the remainder.
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(heraldry, of an animal) devouring something
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(obsolete) ravenous; rapacious
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