1. (

• predacious ,
• predaceous

) hunting and killing other animals for food ;

2. (

• predaceous ,
• predacious ,
• predatory

) living by or given to victimizing others for personal gain; "predatory capitalists"; "a predatory, insensate society in which innocence and decency can prove fatal"- Peter S. Prescott; "a predacious kind of animal;