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.