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rapacious
adjective
devouring or craving food in great quantities
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Word Facts
- Word length
- 9
- Starts with
- R
- Ends with
- S
- Contains
- APACIOU
- Scrabble score
- 13
- Database source
- OEWN 2025 Core
How it sounds
Pronunciation
ɹəˈpeɪ.ʃəs
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Meaning
Definitions
adjective
devouring or craving food in great quantities
“edacious vultures”
adjective
excessively greedy and grasping
“a rapacious divorcee on the prowl”
adjective
living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey
“a predatory bird”
In context
Example Sentences
edacious vultures
a rapacious appetite
ravenous as wolves
voracious sharks
a rapacious divorcee on the prowl
ravening creditors
paying taxes to voracious governments
a predatory bird
the rapacious wolf
raptorial birds
ravening wolves
a vulturine taste for offal
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