Adjective
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devouring or craving food in great quantities
"edacious vultures"
"a rapacious appetite"
"ravenous as wolves"
"voracious sharks"
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excessively greedy and grasping
"a rapacious divorcee on the prowl"
"ravening creditors"
"paying taxes to voracious governments"
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living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey
"a predatory bird"
"the rapacious wolf"
"raptorial birds"
"ravening wolves"
"a vulturine taste for offal"