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R AH0 P AE1 SH IH0 S
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R AH0 P EY1 SH IH0 S
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Voracious; avaricious.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: also, figuratively
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: acquisitive, avaricious, cormorant, covetous, edacious, esurient, grasping, greedy, miserable, piggish, miserly, rapacious, selfish, sordid, sharp-set, voracious
Antonyms: none provided
Given to taking by force or plundering; aggressively greedy.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Subsisting off live prey.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: usually a bird
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: predacious, predatory
Antonyms: none provided
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adjective satellite
Meaning 4
devouring or craving food in great quantities
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
edacious vultures a rapacious appetite ravenous as wolves voracious sharks
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: edacious, esurient, ravening, ravenous, voracious, wolfish
Antonyms: none provided
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adjective satellite
Meaning 5
excessively greedy and grasping
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
a rapacious divorcee on the prowl ravening creditors paying taxes to voracious governments
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: ravening, voracious
Antonyms: none provided
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adjective satellite
Meaning 6
living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
a predatory bird the rapacious wolf raptorial birds ravening wolves a vulturine taste for offal
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: predatory, raptorial, ravening, vulturine, vulturous
Antonyms: none provided
Perhaps from rapacity + -ous, in any case ultimately from Latin rapāx (“grasping, greedy”) + -acious.
Across languages
Translations 46 source translations are retained for this English entry.
Bulgarian :
алчен
(alčen)
— avaricious
Bulgarian :
ненаситен
(nenasiten)
— avaricious
Finnish :
ahne
— avaricious
Finnish :
saaliinhimoinen
— avaricious
French :
rapace
— avaricious
German :
unersättlich
— avaricious
German :
habgierig
— avaricious
Greek :
άπληστος
(áplistos)
— avaricious
Ancient Greek :
ἅρπαξ
(hárpax)
— avaricious
Hungarian :
kapzsi
— avaricious
Hungarian :
pénzsóvár
— avaricious
Hungarian :
pénzéhes
— avaricious
Hungarian :
telhetetlen
— avaricious
Hungarian :
mohó
— avaricious
Latin :
rapax
— avaricious
Māori :
whakakakao
— avaricious
Norwegian Bokmål :
rovlysten
— avaricious
Polish :
pazerny
— avaricious
Portuguese :
voraz
— avaricious
Russian :
жадный
(žadnyj)
— avaricious
Russian :
алчный
(alčnyj)
— avaricious
Serbo-Croatian :
gramziv
— avaricious
Serbo-Croatian :
pohlepan
— avaricious
Serbo-Croatian :
lakom
— avaricious
Spanish :
codicioso
— avaricious
Swedish :
rovgirig
— avaricious
Bulgarian :
грабителски
(grabitelski)
— given to take by force
Dutch :
roofzuchtig
— given to take by force
German :
raubgierig
— given to take by force
Greek :
αρπακτικός
(arpaktikós)
— given to take by force
Hungarian :
ragadozó
— given to take by force
Latin :
rapax
— given to take by force
Norwegian Bokmål :
rovlysten
— given to take by force
Spanish :
rapaz
— given to take by force
Bulgarian :
граблив
(grabliv)
— which subsists off live prey
German :
Raub-
— which subsists off live prey
Greek :
αρπακτικός
(arpaktikós)
— which subsists off live prey
Hungarian :
mohó
— which subsists off live prey
Hungarian :
falánk
— which subsists off live prey
Hungarian :
ragadozó
— which subsists off live prey
Italian :
rapace
— which subsists off live prey
Norwegian Bokmål :
rov-
— which subsists off live prey
Russian :
хищный
(xiščnyj)
— which subsists off live prey
Serbo-Croatian :
grabežljiv
— which subsists off live prey
Spanish :
rapaz
— which subsists off live prey
Ukrainian :
хижий
(xyžyj)
— which subsists off live prey
