rapacious lietuviškai

Paaiškinimas anglų kalba

• devouring or craving food in great quantities "edacious vultures" "a rapacious appetite" "ravenous as wolves" "voracious sharks"
• characterized by plundering or pillaging or marauding "bands of marauding Indians" "predatory warfare" "a raiding party"
• excessively greedy and grasping "a rapacious divorcee on the prowl" "ravening creditors" "paying taxes to voracious governments"
• 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"
• immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth "they are avaricious and will do anything for money" "casting covetous eyes on his neighbor's fields" "a grasping old miser" "grasping commercialism" "greedy for money and power" "grew richer and g..."