Synonymer
Ingen översättning hittades i den valda målspråket.
Definitioner
Adjektiv
- Voracious; avaricious.
- Given to taking by force or plundering; aggressively greedy.
- (of an animal, usually a bird) Subsisting off live prey.
Exempel
- To presume a want of motives for such contests [of power between states] as an argument against their existence, would be to forget that men are ambitious, vindictive, and rapacious.
- A Prince [...] sooner becomes hated by being rapacious and by interfering with the property and with the women of his subjects, than in any other way.
- Even the rapacious birds appeared to comprehend the nature of the ceremony, for [...] they once more began to make their airy circuits above the place [...]
Böjningsformer
| Komparativ | more rapacious |
| Superlativ | most rapacious |