| Main Entry: | preying |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | predatoriness |
Synonyms: |
predacity, predation, predatism, rapaciousness, rapacity |
| Main Entry: | preying |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | predatory |
Synonyms: |
predaceous, predacious, rapacious, raptorial, ravening |
| Main Entry: | plunder |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | ravage, steal |
Synonyms: |
appropriate, burn, depredate, despoil, devastate, fleece, forage, foray, grab, gut, kip, knock off, knock over, lay waste, liberate, lift, loft, loot, maraud, moonlight requisition, pillage, prey, prowl, raid, ransack, relieve, requisition, rifle, rip off, rob, sack, salvage, smash and grab, snatch, spoil, stick up, strip |
Antonyms: |
give, receive |
| Main Entry: | predatory |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | eating, destroying for sustenance or without conscience |
Synonyms: |
bloodthirsty, carnivorous, depredatory, despoiling, greedy, hungry, hunting, marauding, pillaging, plundering, predacious, predative, preying, rapacious, raptorial, ravaging, ravening, thieving, voracious, vulturine, vulturous, wolfish |
| Main Entry: | rapacious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | plundering |
Synonyms: |
avaricious, ferocious, furious, greedy, marauding, murderous, predatory, preying, ravening, ravenous, savage, voracious |
| Main Entry: | ravage |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | destroy, ransack |
Synonyms: |
annihilate, break up, capture, consume, cream*, crush, damage, demolish, desecrate, desolate, despoil, devastate, dismantle, disorganize, disrupt, exterminate, extinguish, forage, foray, gut, harry, impair, lay waste, leave in ruins, loot, overrun, overthrow, overwhelm, pillage, pirate, plunder, prey, prostrate, pull down, raid, rape, raze, rob, ruin, sack, seize, shatter, sink, smash, spoil, spoliate, stamp out, strip, sweep away, total*, trample, trash, waste, wreak havoc, wreck, wrest |
Antonyms: |
aid, assist, help, protect |