Depredatory [adjective]

Definition of Depredatory:

eating, destroying for sustenance or without conscience

Synonyms of Depredatory:

● Rapacious

● Voracious

● Greedy

● Bloodthirsty

● Carnivorous

● Hungry

● Hunting

● Preying

● Thieving

● Marauding

● Plundering

● Predacious

● Predative

● Raptorial

● Ravaging

● Ravening

● Vulturine

● Vulturous

● Wolfish


Opposite/Antonyms of Depredatory:

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Sentence/Example of Depredatory:

Yet the fact is that the high rate of exchange and the depredatory U-boat represented almost identically the same danger.

On many of his depredatory expeditions he had not hesitated to use the knife and the mutton-bone.

Various were the measures adopted to check this depredatory spirit.

The other two players are—one a watchman or shepherd, and the other a wolf, fox, or other depredatory animal.